Oh, I say some may have had a good experience being a Vista volunter and they probably helped several people but the likelyhood is a lot more people could have been helped if it had not been a government program. I'm sure John is honest in his work and his intentions but he is being less than honest in most of the discussion on this thread.--- In [email protected], "steven linnabary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Stroebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > That is part of what is being done there now. Oh, no, I finished a second > > year and moved on to teach on the Wind RIver Reservation in Wyoming. > > This article began with a post I was sharing...showing a business success > on > > this reservation. I showed an article on how VISTAS found a way to assist > > the Ute and Navajo children in San Juan County with sales of home made > candy > > over the Internet. The success was so surprising that the parents are now > > involved. > > > > I was a part of VISTA back in '82-'83. I did not have the good VISTA > experience you did, though my project was gratifying. My problem was that > VISTA required written reports, and that VISTA really did not seem to care > whether the project was successful or not. As far as VISTA was concerned, > as long as the weekly reports were timely, the project was successful. As > far as I was concerned, the reports were far too time consuming unless I > what I wrote was vague and contained a lot of obtuse verbiage. > > Accurate reports were impossible because I was in charge of a "Gleaning > Program" for local farms at the local food bank. Of course this was > neccessarily seasonal, and I found that there is actually very little food > (commercially) grown in Ohio for human consumption. The rest of the time I > was helping out around the food bank, which actually took up nearly all my > time. The food bank was something that I believed in, afterall, it wasn't > government funded. > > One good experience was at the beginning of my service, I was required to > sign a proclamation to defend America from all enemies, foriegn and > domestic. I scratched out America, US and other government references and > replaced them with "people of the world" or some such. I found out several > years later that the local director of VISTA always showed this signed > statement (sans my signature, I hope) to new recruits during orientation as > to what they were allowed to do if they had a problem with the oath. > > > That is what we do there...we need to first begin with education. A person > > who can not read or spell can not access the Internet, and this is one > major > > way to find a market for their products. I set up a business council to > help > > Ute adults with assistance with business decisions. > > > > Here again, I found that the welfare mentality caused people to not care or > work toward their own welfare. This was the era of free government cheese > handouts. People would stand in line for several hours for a 5 pound block > of cheese (or fight to get to the front of the line (police were omnipresent > during these handouts). Sad, really. > > And the volunteers I managed to find for the project never came from the > local food pantries, but from church groups and other civic organizations. > > PEACE > Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer > Franklin County Libertarian Party > (614) 891-8841 > P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 > > "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution > inevitable" John F. Kennedy >
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