 it was we'd never have enough money to pay all of the people to do all of the things that we need to address challenges and communities but there is something that is in this unique american spirit where no matter how much money people have or little money they have we want to take care of each other we want to help each other out and there are some people that are willing to give a year give two years uh and and service to their country and so fast forward to 30 years we now have about more than 200 000 americorps members senior volunteers serving in 40 000 locations