Political Quotes

“The tragedy is that when you talk about that system of federally financed volunteer programs, contrast that with what happened in my district recently, where the Brethren Nursing Home had a contract with a local high school where the students would come in and volunteer their time to give those seniors what the paid people would not give them, because they do not have time to give them, and the Department of Labor moved in and said, ``That is a $15,000 fine, and it is $13,000 back wages you must pay to these students who came to volunteer.'' So I called the secretary and said, ``Wait a minute. Your President got the Congress to pass a program for volunteers that costs $20,000 to $30,000 to $35,000 for every volunteer. Here you are going to zap this nursing home because these kids volunteered to help seniors, read stories to them, push them in a wheelchair?'' Oh, he did not like that. I said, ``I don't like it either. Because on one hand it was stupid to pay volunteers, and then on the other hand, you zapped those who volunteer their time. Not only that, have are you going to determine then which was work and which was volunteer? Was pushing the wheelchair work, or was that a volunteer? Was reading the story to the senior citizen work, or was that a volunteer?'' It is just--well, I will refrain from saying what I really think it was, but nevertheless these are the inconsistencies.…”