We the undersigned urge the Legislative and Executive Branches of the United States Government to reactivate refund and revamp FDR's popular New Deal program the United States Civilian Conservation Corps(1933-1942). Reactivation, refunding and revamping United States Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) will give us a proven program with more bang for the buck!
The reactivation, refunding and revamping of the CCC would again be under the direct control of the government and will not be privatized. The CCC would utilize federal agencies such as Labor, Agriculture, Interior, Veterans Affairs and the DOD. The CCC would receive proper appropriations from Congress to perform its duties as required. For the CCC to achieve accountability and to prevent overlap and fraud the federal government would stop all funding to similar federal, state and municipal programs and their personnel would be absorbed back into the CCC.
The CCC would work in the construction, maintenance and carrying on of works in a public nature in the connection of public lands that belong to the United States. States, Native lands and US Territories that are suitable for such cooperative work on their agricultural, park, watershed, and forest lands in forest protection, flood control, erosion control, wildfire suppression, park improvements, park development, wildlife protection, historical restoration, ranch and farmland erosion control, grazing erosion control, disaster relief with agreements with the American Red Cross to help those in distress, clean-up pollution, rebuild housing and infrastructure, and repair damage to the environment, and other services needed that would benefit the United States of America in our public domain. The CCC would be engaged in fighting global warming by planting millions of trees and have the best opportunities to qualify for future green job careers.
The reactivation, refunding and revamping of the CCC would now enroll fit single women and men from eighteen to twenty-five who are US Citizens. The CCC would be considered a national service agency as the Peace Corps without a college degree. The CCC would be an alternative national service for those who do not wish to serve in the military but would rather serve their country on our own soil. The CCC would enroll fit war veterans of any age. The CCC could also consider enrolling US Citizens and war veterans on a case by case basis for those who have non-violent criminal record who have served their time or are on probation and need employment and a second start.
Enrollments would last for six months and can be extended up to two years. The enrollees would also be considered - Government Issue- GIs. The CCC would provide our GIs with a living wage, free medical, dental, clothing, room (barracks) and board and after hours, they would have optional time for vocational training and education. Most enrollees would have to adapt to being far away from home. Our GIs would all have a valuable work experience, make new friends, and have real fun, travel, and adventure. Our GIs could receive time in government service and have access to the GI Bill for post secondary college and vocational education.
Finally, the United States Civilian Conservation Corps would enable the United States with a more confident, competent and reliable workforce ready for employment. As FDR wrote in 1933, "More important than the material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."
Observations from two famous American Authors and Historians:
James A. Michner wrote in his book - This Noble Land, "I was favorably impressed by the Civilian Conservation Corps, which had, so far as I could see, a faultless program in which young people could do constructive work for their communities while earning a modest salary. I would have hopes for such a program, were one to be reinstituted now."
Howard Zinn wrote, "The CCC was not only one of the greatest innovations of the New Deal, but it provides a model for us today. It is the answer to the double problem of unemployed youth (who turn to drugs, who end up in prison) and the persistence of war, with its enormous drain on the national wealth. The young, instead of being recruited to kill and be killed, or to come home maimed in body or in mind, could be put to work in government programs like the CCC, doing all sorts of constructive things to make our environment cleaner and safer. Such work would have the opposite effect of military action -- that is, it would foster healthy bodies and healthy minds as these young people make a great contribution to the nation. The situation today, with a trillion dollars wasted on war, with young men and women coming home damaged, with a crumbling infrastructure making us vulnerable to more Katrina's, and more human disasters, cries out for such a solution."
We the undersigned urge the Legislative and Executive Branches of the United States Government to reactivate refund and revamp FDR's popular New Deal program the United States Civilian Conservation Corps(1933-1942). Reactivation, refunding and revamping United States Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) will give us a proven program with more bang for the buck!
The reactivation, refunding and revamping of the CCC would again be under the direct control of the government and will not be privatized. The CCC would utilize federal agencies such as Labor, Agriculture, Interior, Veterans Affairs and the DOD. The CCC would receive proper appropriations from Congress to perform its duties as required. For the CCC to achieve accountability and to prevent overlap and fraud the federal government would stop all funding to similar federal, state and municipal programs and their personnel would be absorbed back into the CCC.
The CCC would work in the construction, maintenance and carrying on of works in a public nature in the connection of public lands that belong to the United States. States, Native lands and US Territories that are suitable for such cooperative work on their agricultural, park, watershed, and forest lands in forest protection, flood control, erosion control, wildfire suppression, park improvements, park development, wildlife protection, historical restoration, ranch and farmland erosion control, grazing erosion control, disaster relief with agreements with the American Red Cross to help those in distress, clean-up pollution, rebuild housing and infrastructure, and repair damage to the environment, and other services needed that would benefit the United States of America in our public domain. The CCC would be engaged in fighting global warming by planting millions of trees and have the best opportunities to qualify for future green job careers.
The reactivation, refunding and revamping of the CCC would now enroll fit single women and men from eighteen to twenty-five who are US Citizens. The CCC would be considered a national service agency as the Peace Corps without a college degree. The CCC would be an alternative national service for those who do not wish to serve in the military but would rather serve their country on our own soil. The CCC would enroll fit war veterans of any age. The CCC could also consider enrolling US Citizens and war veterans on a case by case basis for those who have non-violent criminal record who have served their time or are on probation and need employment and a second start.
Enrollments would last for six months and can be extended up to two years. The enrollees would also be considered - Government Issue- GIs. The CCC would provide our GIs with a living wage, free medical, dental, clothing, room (barracks) and board and after hours, they would have optional time for vocational training and education. Most enrollees would have to adapt to being far away from home. Our GIs would all have a valuable work experience, make new friends, and have real fun, travel, and adventure. Our GIs could receive time in government service and have access to the GI Bill for post secondary college and vocational education.
Finally, the United States Civilian Conservation Corps would enable the United States with a more confident, competent and reliable workforce ready for employment. As FDR wrote in 1933, "More important than the material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."
Observations from two famous American Authors and Historians:
James A. Michner wrote in his book - This Noble Land, "I was favorably impressed by the Civilian Conservation Corps, which had, so far as I could see, a faultless program in which young people could do constructive work for their communities while earning a modest salary. I would have hopes for such a program, were one to be reinstituted now."
Howard Zinn wrote, "The CCC was not only one of the greatest innovations of the New Deal, but it provides a model for us today. It is the answer to the double problem of unemployed youth (who turn to drugs, who end up in prison) and the persistence of war, with its enormous drain on the national wealth. The young, instead of being recruited to kill and be killed, or to come home maimed in body or in mind, could be put to work in government programs like the CCC, doing all sorts of constructive things to make our environment cleaner and safer. Such work would have the opposite effect of military action -- that is, it would foster healthy bodies and healthy minds as these young people make a great contribution to the nation. The situation today, with a trillion dollars wasted on war, with young men and women coming home damaged, with a crumbling infrastructure making us vulnerable to more Katrina's, and more human disasters, cries out for such a solution."
We the undersigned:
Urge you our elected leaders to recognize the United States Civilian Conservation Corps as the nation's most popular government program and largest civilian workforce that gave us, More Bang for the Buck!
The United States Civilian Conservation Corps would enable a new national service and give our nation a competent and reliable workforce, and more important than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.
Thank you for your time and consideration to reactivate, refund and revamp our most popular government program in US History.
The Government should reinstate the Civillian Conservation Corps. because the Government Rocks!!
Reimplementing CCC would be a great step in the direction of securing a sustainable future.
This program will create jobs for unemployed americans and keep our brave women and men in the military engaged in truly protecting our homeland.
This worked in the 30s - it'll work now.
This will help create real jobs and use Fed $$ to invest in the future and the future use of ALL of USA.
A project like the CCC could employ hundreds of thousands of America's unemployed while updating our infrastructure.
We artists need the job... WE ARE STARVING!
The government is in a unique position to be able to provide the capital and administration necessary to achieve a large-scale project such as this. The DOD has said that one of the greatest threats to our national security is climate change; keeping our economies local and low-impact reduces our negative impact on other countries. This program would not only create jobs, it would create new ways of thinking, and help fight pollution and global climate change, while revamping our dilapidated infrastructure and injecting new life into our cities.
This program would save future generations money and health and happiness by protecting our natural resources. I am so grateful for all the wonderful projects that were done during the Great Depression. We are still benefitting from them. Let's do it again with gusto.
My father is one of those everyday hard working type and I would like to see some peace brought on this land for people just like him.
my father was in the ccc's. it is a good plan for cleaning up our country, getting jobs for those who want to work.
Bringing back the CCC has the potential to not only bolster our infrastructure and revitalize our parks system but train up a new generation in "green collar" jobs where there are currently people losing hope. Not only would this have the domestic effect of stimulating the economy, lowering the unemployment rate, and training young people in a fledgling industry that only stands to grow and grow, we would certainly be taking a good next step toward becoming more ecologically conscious on a global level.
And where we can boost the economy, build community, AND make great gains for the environment - LIKE RIGHT HERE with the Reactivation, refunding, and revamping of the USCCC - well, it only makes good sense to get this under way - ASAP! Thank you for your consideration!
We currently have an economy that is destructful to workers, and the CCC is a great way to "bailout" people who are struggling in this zero-job climate, while helping to build and create a new sustainable United States.
The CCC should be reactivated for the fact that it gets people outside and lets them know theres more to life thane iphones, computer games and TV. It also will instill a sense of proud which this country lost and had a small taste of shortly after 9/11.
The parks, trails and camps that we all enjoy today, were made by the CCC. We owe our grandfathers a great debt of gratitute. What better way to show that gratitude, while providing a much needed service and cutting unemployment, than reactivating the CCC. We could protect our environment by protecting and expanding out parks as well as repair our national infrastructure.
No level of government other than the federal government has the resources to restore the CCC and no other level of government will be certain that opportunities are available for everyone and that needs in every state will be addressed. We have a very large group of young people without jobs and without direction---they need the CCC, and we, the people of the United States, need them to be productive members of society.
Besides the 7.5 million lost jobs, There are huge numbers of unemployed youth, especially in the inner cities. This program would give them useful skills in future environmental work, needed employment, a feeling of personal worth, and economic help for themselves and their families.
The Gov't has spent billions to bail out the BANKS (the ones who already had $$$) Now they need to divert some of the proceeds from the bank lending / bailout / TARP towards the CCC so WE can help heal the environment, PLEASE!!!! WE can take it.... BUT the environment can not "take it" any more.
It's a win-win situation. Put the younger folks to work and it gets work done at the same time.
PUT PEOPLE TO WORK, SAVE OUR EARTH, SAVE OUR COUNTRY, SAVE OUR ECONOMY - take your pick.
The CCC was one of the most popular New Deal programs for a reason. It rewarded those who worked hard with a just wage and helped them develop new skills and find pride in themselves through good old fashioned hard work. I would rather see a CCC crew, living in tents and working together to clean up our lakes, rivers, forests or urban areas then anyone else. They could be used for local or national disaster relief to do such things as rebuild New Orleans and other cities and towns after Katrina and whatever future disaster we as a Nation will face together.
Give US citizens a fully funded conservation corps and teach our posterity the TRUE meaning of "ASK NOT ...
This program is totally logical and would provide a way for the unemployed to become valuable, productive members of society. It would decrease criminality and increase morale nationwide!
The U.S. government should reactivate the CCC program because our national unemployment rate is nearing 10% (17% if you count those who are underemployed) and waiting until it meets the Great Depression's rate of 25% is irresponsible. We cannot sink to a position as a weakened nation while China and nations like it begin to flourish. This is an issue of national security. We are suffering from a media-stoked culture of overindulgence that has manifested into a multitude of social problems the least of which include poverty, lack of education, and a lack of will and pride. Our prisons are overcrowded and expensive and full of people who result to drugs and violence as a means to survive and we are paying roughly $35,000+ per year to keep them imprisoned. Reactivating this program in a modern form could help educate, motivate, and re-institute a feeling of American pride that has been exacerbated by social welfare agencies that should have been considering benefits to the human psyche when one is given a "hand up” rather than a "hand out". We need to restore the will of mankind in this great nation and think beyond simply meeting immediate needs. I hope this Congress will consider modernizing programs of the past such as the CCC. This nation is still enjoying the benefits of that program as evidenced by our national parks. So too are those who either worked in the CCC camps or whose families enjoyed the benefits of a relative’s education and residual life long work ethic.
We all need to take a more hands on approach to improving our environment. Getting people involved on such a first person level will give great satisfaction and increase pride in work and surroundings and improve environmental awareness.
The best part of a year after the Stimulus Package was introduced, more fundamental measures need to be taken to get our great country back on course. Mr. Obama's programs have been a nudge in the right direction, but have fallen short of what is needed, as the recession we are in has been critically underestimated. Unemployment is edging toward double-digit percentiles; our infrastructure on many levels needs serious attention; much environmental conservation and sustainability work must be done if we want to ensure our future; many of the youth of the country want to serve, but American youth as a whole are sadly demoralized; and - not in the least meaning to be flippant - Americans are in a poorer state of physical fitness than any time in our history. How can we compete with any other nation in this condition? Yet we keep going on, business as usual, with the same approaches that brought us to this need for a massive band-aid. Why keep putting on band-aids, when a rehab is needed? There is nothing shameful in manual labor, plenty needs to be done - particularly when hundreds of thousands will be glad for any work. It is worth considering that perhaps like the original Corps, there should be a provision that a certain percentage of wages earned must be sent to ones family. I further believe that re-activating the Civilian Conservation Corps will help foster a work ethic and spirit of cooperation amongst Americans of all backgrounds.
Our Americans do best when they have the self-respect of having a job, and working to make their own life with their own money. Instead of taking jobs away and sending them overseas, it's time we start thinking hard about how we can keep those jobs right here, and successfully improve our Nation!
To bring the self respect of every american the chance to learn and do something good for themselfs and for others. Male, female every american between the ages of 18 to 40 should be elgible.
give people jobs
President Obama stated that we need ‘change’. This has started us on a path that will take us into the next generation of changes needed to resolve financial and personal responsibilities that every American must face. The funding of these changes is going to be significantly harder than it has been in the past. This program can significantly reduce some of those costs. It would put people back to work (doing exactly what he wants to do, create government jobs) at a fraction of the cost. It would resolve issues we face that require our attention in the next few years, and subsequently could be paid for out of the Stimulus package without making a significant impact on future funding. It would surely resolve some issues for as long as the next 50-100 years.
With so much unemployment across our nation how can we not consider reactivating the US CCC? How can we as a nation say that it is better to let someone go hungry in the street than to give them a chance to get through this "recession" with pride and dignity? We don't want a hand-out, we need a hand!
We need jobs for people and our environment needs desperate help. This would be a win win for everyone.
Reactivating this program would be one of the best things you could do for the youth of our country, and for returning veterans who need a morale building job helping develop real citizens of the youth of our country.
Why should the US government reactivate this program for us? For Americans the US government should show the way, if they want to appear intelligent, to exemplify a much stronger conservation ethic through programs that put strength behind nature conservation movements. People deserve respect too, but never more than what is required to demonstrate respect for what we were given, and the grace of that gift, the gift of life that sings and grows and flowers everywhere. Can the USA stand up to Euro-powers, banking powers and other world powers and say, "Uh-uh. We are doing it this way"? That is the question.
Why wouldn't they do it? Is there a down-side? People work instead of just collecting benefits or looking for jobs that aren't there. Maybe common sense really does make a comeback. Maybe a pride in accomplishment is revived. Maybe America takes pride in something that's actually worth being proud of. Where, indeed, is the down-side?
At the same time, there are millions of Americans who lack meaningful work. There is a natural fit here, that would greatly benefit our nation.
This program would mobilize and envigerate listlees youth of today. It would qwelch useless thuggery and rebellion . It would also supply Americas youth with an opportunity to take ownership in their country.Women should be adde to the program and it should also serve federal and state human services bureaus.
