{"id":7000,"date":"2009-01-12T17:31:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T22:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7000"},"modified":"2009-01-12T17:31:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T22:31:55","slug":"my-call-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7000","title":{"rendered":"My Call to Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s still a week from the Inauguration, but Michelle Obama is calling me to service;<\/p>\n

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She writes in the email;<\/p>\n

Volunteers of all ages and backgrounds are committing to renew America together, one community at a time.<\/p>\n

Whatever service activity you organize or take part in — cleaning up a park, giving blood, volunteering at a homeless shelter, or mentoring an at-risk youth — you can help start this important journey. But this is about more than just a single day of service, it’s the beginning of an ongoing commitment to your community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, aren’t all of those things reasons they give me to pay my taxes? Every year I pay tens of thousands of dollars of my earnings to the State and Federal governments because they think they can do those things better than I can do those things. Now they’re admitting that my money goes down a black hole and I need to do those things in addition to pay my taxes on time?<\/p>\n

But I’ve been “enabled to serve”;<\/p>\n

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Don’t worry, if fewer people than expected want to serve, more of us will be “enabled”, I’m sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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