| − | Kate O’Beirne said "... the critics are right: AmeriCorps is a wasteful boondoggle." Kate cites one of these critics, "James Bovard found enough abuses in AmeriCorps to devote a whole chapter to it in his book ''Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years''. Bovard found plenty of examples of AmeriCorps participants' wasting their time, engaging in liberal advocacy, and making wildly exaggerated claims about their accomplishments." <ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/25feb02/kob022502.shtml Corps-Crazy], Kate O’Beirne, ''National Review Online'', February 25, 2002</ref> | + | Kate O’Beirne said "... the critics are right: AmeriCorps is a wasteful [[boondoggle]]." Kate cites one of these critics, "James Bovard found enough abuses in AmeriCorps to devote a whole chapter to it in his book ''Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years''. Bovard found plenty of examples of AmeriCorps participants' wasting their time, engaging in liberal advocacy, and making wildly exaggerated claims about their accomplishments." <ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/25feb02/kob022502.shtml Corps-Crazy], Kate O’Beirne, ''National Review Online'', February 25, 2002</ref> |