The following national initiative is supported by the Catholic Committee on Scouting, please spread the word amongst non-Scouters.

Boy Scouts of America Expands on Good Turn Initiative

In an effort to increase community participation in serving others, the Boy Scouts of America is introducing Good Turn for America. Good Turn for America is an initiative designed to increase collaborations between the millions of BSA members and participants and other groups and organizations to better meet community needs.

"Scouting's oath to America has always been to serve other people at all times. We take that oath very seriously and provide an average of 48 million hours of service in communities throughout the country each year," states Roy L. Williams, Chief Scout Executive. "While this is a Scouting initiative, it is meant to include everyone in the community. You don't have to be a member of Scouting to join in on many of the public service projects."

Nationally, the Boy Scouts of America, The Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, and the American Red Cross are collectively asking every American to address the food, shelter, and health needs of their community. Through the combined efforts of these organizations and other groups that provide similar service in communities around the country, families will have sufficient food to eat, homelessness can be reduced, and we will reduce the growing number of obese individuals. Through Good Turn for America, everyone can do something to make a difference in the lives of others.

Are you one who will make a difference? Get involved. http://www.goodturnforamerica.com

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), February 01, 2004

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-- The Bumper! (Bump@bumpitybump.bump), February 04, 2004.

Awesome Bill, what a fantastic concept, it deserves all of our support. I read also that Pres Bush is undertaking to increase social welfare spending as well esp through faith based intitives. Seems contradictory for a conservative party to do such a thing, I was very surprised. Credit where credit is due, Bravo Mr Bush!

-- Kiwi (csisherwood@hotmail.com), February 04, 2004.

Kiwi, would you like to say, "Bravo, Mr. Bush" again? I have a feeling that you are not aware of this initiative of his, which has some too-far-to-the-right people grumbling. He is going ahead with this, even though it will be a massive financial burden on the nation, greatly increasing the budget deficit and national debt.
GWB is not the ultraconservative ogre that leftists have painted him.
JFG

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@Hotmail.com), February 04, 2004.

We have free prescription drugs, dental treatment, eyesight tests and spectacles for all children up to the age of 16, for all seniors over the age of 60, for the unemployed, for those on a low income,for all pregnant women - to one year after the birth. Every person in the country are entitled to free hospital treatment, paid for by taxes of course. I suppose in the UK we don't really appreciate how lucky we are.

With the help of God, hopefully the initiative Bill speaks about will come to fruition.

God bless

-- Sara (sara_catholic_forum@yahoo.co.uk), February 04, 2004.

Sara,
Don't congratulate yourself too quickly. See: Surgeons Close Wounds with Paperclips

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), February 05, 2004.

Bill

I think it's perfectly valid to state the facts of our healthcare system and how we try to look after the poorer members of society health as well as the rich. I could drudge up stories like yours about probably any country in the world, including the US. I could also go on to state hundreds of discoveries and inventions that were and are made in the UK and are now in daily use all over the world. Things that we today take for granted. That would be pointless though. The fact that we may make mistakes is irrelevant here. Only God is perfect.

I never claimed the UK did everything correctly all of the time. No country does. As John Gecik said in a forum thread recently, it's ok to say things that are good about America if (paraphrasing there of course), likewise it's ok to say good things about the UK.

God bless

Sara

-- Sara (sara__catholic_forum@yahoo.co.uk), February 06, 2004.

Sure, Sara, it is good to say good things about the UK. I am not sure socialized medicine is a good thing (I would have to study it in the country it is used in). Sometimes it may be good, and sometimes the nationalization of industries to support it or the taxing of people to support it, is not so good. So I appologize I have not studied the pros or cons in the UK on your version of socialized medicine.

I don't like the US medical system by the way. Too much big businesses and rich lawyers contol it.

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), February 06, 2004.