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Blow my own horn department (4.00 / 4)

Here's me from a couple of days ago:

My stimulation idea - paid volunteerism.

Then this from today's news:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/10/powell.service/?iref=mpstoryview

"We have an economic problem," Powell told a Washington news conference Friday. "People are losing their jobs. Let's come forward to serve our fellow citizens and to serve our nation."
...
Powell said the site will follow the model of craigslist.org, a worldwide virtual bulletin board where users can post free classified ads.

Apparently some of my off-the-wall ideas aren't that weird after all.

Policies not Politics
---- Daily Landscape

by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 07:21:27 PM EST

Volunteering is not off-the-wall (none / 0)

although I don´t see where Powell has offered to pay them anything because it wouldn´t be volunteerism anymore. Unemployed people at this moment may consider it ´rich´ of Powell, to offer that as some solution, though.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 09:48:02 AM EST
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