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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (219317)	9/8/2009 5:06:22 PM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I still don't get your point. People who need money don't work in volunteer positions. If J2P has a choice of working for minimum wage, or working for nothing, he's not going to take the volunteer job. Nobody is putting a gun to someone's head to coerce them to volunteer. For a number of years I was a volunteer leader for the Sierra Club, teaching a wilderness course, for which the students paid tuition. None of us instructors were paid, but we put in tremendous time and effort. Of course, the choice to volunteer was ours. Did the Sierra Club violate the law by allowing us to volunteer? As you note, motivation plays a huge part in volunteer positions. If people are not motivated, they are not going to volunteer. What's your point? Besides, there is a big difference between a corporation and a politician (OK, in theory, anyway). The former should have to pay minimum wage because it makes money off the employee's labor. The latter hopes for political gain from its volunteers' efforts rather than monetary gain (again, in theory). Doesn't every politician in the US have volunteer staffers?