Show ACORN the Money
by PubliusFrom The American Spectator:
ACORN and other left-wing advocacy groups could be eligible for up to $3.99 billion in federal funding included in the $3.83 trillion fiscal 2011 budget blueprint that President Obama unveiled last week.
ACORN and other left-wing advocacy groups could be eligible for up to $3.99 billion in federal funding included in the $3.83 trillion fiscal 2011 budget blueprint that President Obama unveiled last week.
The $3.99 billion comes from a congressional slush fund known as the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) $48.5 billion fiscal 2011 budget. CDBG grants, which are awarded to states and localities, pass indirectly to ACORN.
How is more funding of ACORN possible when Congress passed a ban on funding the group and its affiliates just last year?
Congress has already hinted it might vote to restore funding to ACORN. On Dec. 8 the House Appropriations Committee rejected on a party line vote of 9 to 5 an amendment offered by Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) that would have blocked federal funding of ACORN.
And in December federal Judge Nina Gershon restored federal funding of ACORN by issuing a temporary injunction against the congressional funding ban. The Brooklyn-based Gershon, a Bill Clinton appointee, determined that depriving ACORN of taxpayer dollars was an unconstitutional “bill of attainder” that singled out ACORN for punishment without trial.
You might be familiar with Gershon’s oeuvre. In 1999 she ruled then-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani had no right to cut off city funding of the Brooklyn Museum of Art when it displayed dead animals and a painting of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung.
Gershon’s order covered the federal government’s temporary spending legislation that expired Dec. 18 but ACORN is asking that the injunction be modified to cover the remainder of fiscal 2010, which ends Sept. 30. If the litigation drags on, ACORN will undoubtedly seek another modification to cover fiscal 2011.
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I prefer a roasted ACORN, slowly roasted that is.
Federal Judge Nina Gershon?
Why does Chicago get to export their toxic waste?
No…….No……… No More $$$$$ To acorn…… No more tax money to a socialist agenda. Stop the insanity now !!!
" House Appropriations Committee rejected on a party line vote of 9 to 5 an amendment offered by Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) that would have blocked federal funding of ACORN. "
A PARTY LINE VOTE, WELL FANCY THAT !
9 Democrats vote for the nuts.
5 Republicans vote to cut the damn tree down.
Maybe have to wait until 2012 to do a little tree service.
Along with the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development should be closed immediately, eliminating all funding to ACORN and saving the taxpayers billions in wasted bureaucracies. Let the Federal government run constitutionally and get out of State affairs.
Taxpayer funds -> ACORN -> Organizing for America -> Obama
Follow the money
And Obama wants us all to be afraid of those mean "Fat Cat" bankers huh…
What about the "Bill of Attainder" on the American People…???
This is one issue that must be!!!!!! taken up by anyone on Capital Hill that wants to make a statement on their position for returning America to Americans. Taking this away from the Obama Administration should be a priorty. Please contact you Senator and Reps. If anyone that wants to help restore America just sets on the fence and allows garbage and corruption like Acorn to continue than stand back and watch Nov. 2010 be corrupted again.
Why should James O'Keefe be considered innocent until proven guilty but not ACORN?
I don't get any federal funds. The Constitution is being violated by denying me funds. lol
ACORN has been found guilty in a lot of state for election fraud
They will get the money, no doubt. There is no one honest enough to cut their throats. If there was I wouldn't have needed to read the article. Should have been out of business 10 mins after J&Hs first vid broke.
Jack Murtha is Dead! Anyone know the special election rules for PA? Next seat to change hands?
Oh, if I come across as a little less than sensitive, just remember what he said about our troops and then also consider that he made it to average life expectancy. I won't miss him. Enjoy your dirt nap Jack!
Give that money to NASA, not ACORN.
Is that you senator Reid?
Time for all 'Community Development Block Grants' to be de-funded, completely.
And send ACORN to the moon….
Now that's real BANG for your buck.
Hell you dems go ahead and give them the money, and when your azz is gone next election we will cut the flow of cash of to these tards forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully, this next batch of Republicans that we send to the hill will do the right thing this time.
You guys better dismantle all this nonsense.
I'm sorry folks, I still can not understand why Fannie and Freddie survived past the 2000 to 2006 years.
Joint statement released by Biden, Byrd, and Reid!
nah…let's make a new home for them on mars!!!
Hey Congress. Approve funding for this criminal enterprise and you will seal your fate. We are done.
They have not… not one indictment. You are lying.
Yeah, we don't want those black people to get federal money. Save it for good white people.
I don't think nor care about this question of who is or who is not guilty.
What I am concerned about is how my tax dollars are being spent.
ACORN! YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF……….
the sky's the limit.
Anyone who does not campaign in November using this is crazy.
Obama's political payback to Acorn can not be stopped….In the eyes of the lobbyist controlled lackeys on the Hill, it's almost un-american to stop the flow of money to any of their co-cospirators.Gee wonder what is wrong with our political system????
Give it to the disenfranchised in Haiti
The $3.99 billion comes from a congressional slush fund known as the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program (Courtesy of Publius)
Another $3.99 Billion in Grants to a criminal organization. On top of the Grants, the pathetic corupt organization ACON, milks Millions of $$$ from the people ACON claim to be helping!
Cyclo has it right – we taxpayers have collective 'corruption fatigue' – also Ginger is right-on: we know TPTB know that ACORN should be put out of business and their leaders brought to justice AND all Federal Community Development Block Grants terminated – but 'we the sheople' only get to vote once every 2 years so TPTB hope to skew the election results with crack addicts, prostitutes, the dead and other ACORN-provided votes.
And this is why Obama home loans are not happening here in America…that money is going to his buddies a change you can believe in, ACORN for the pimps and ho's
Eventually the rats will jump the sinking ship, only to be rescued onto some liberal life-raft, that will scoop up their worthless lives to safety until they can board another ship.
are there any white groups that get money for just being WHITE?
Happiness is cracking acorn nuts.
A dead crook is getting all the attention.
mikatollah
If that is the way YOU want to look at it, I can't stop you.
As for me, I would be much happier if the federal government just TOOK LESS of MY money.
Is there a group that keeps a close eye on what ACORN receives and does? Given the appearance that their funding is under the table, it also appears that it is up to the taxpayer to keep tabs on them.
Just like a troll, ALWAYS BRING RACE INTO IT. You've learned well from Progressives.
Democrats have problem with Citizens United v Federal Election Commission ruling because ACORN/organizer will have competition
WE must crack this ACORN renewal project for funding. ACORN is still being investigated by IRS and FBI in several states for fraud and back taxes????? where do they get the preferential treatment from FEDS?? Why are they not accountable for their past actions???? when will we stop pissing away taxpayer dollars for such unproductive corrupt activities to simply…"get out the vote"?????? This money would be better spent on nothing, reducing our deficit, and saving interest expenses on this bad investment generating nonproductive returns to society.
Shut up, Senator Byrd.
Bringing blacks from Africa to the USA was the biggest mistake America has even made. Kind of like sleeping on an ant hill and being surprised to find you have been bitten when you wake up.
incredible – only 32 comments on this. one of the most corrupt and contemptible organizations out there. have we become so desensitized to the utterly outrageous?
Okay I searched online to see if this was true or the previous poster was true and found that an acorn employee was indicted in 2005 in Kansas City, 3 plead guilty and 4 more were charged in WA in 2007 I think and there has even been some convictions in other states. It wasn't hard to find this information, and it wasn't just on some conservative news site.
Wouldn't even an investigation merit a freezing of funding anyway when there were so many state cases pending or already held in addition to the one on the national levl? It just maks business sense not to provide money to an accused entity until after it has been proven innocent. Just a thought
remember when the speaker of the house declared that all the tea partiers and townhall protesters were paid astroturfers? i'm sure you know where she got that idea.
because she knows that virtually all the trolls commenting on conservative sites are paid by acorn (with tax dollars). she assumed that since liberals have to pay for fake outrage, surely conservatives do too. it couldn't be principles, right? since liberals have no principles, they believe no one does.
who pays you to sit at a computer all day spouting troll nonsense mr. "media watchdog"?
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Where is Ted Kaczynski when you need him?
But ACORN was not indicted and that is what we were talking about. ACORN hires contractors and some of them turned out to be knuckleheads. In fact, ACORN is working with federal prosecutors to indict people who gamed the system.
The "government" is us. It is not some separate disembodied spirit that works to spite us. That is a right wing mindset that I reject…. just like I reject the concept of a disembodied evil spirit. It's all us.
I don't bring it pal I fight it. And this list drips with white hate.
So this is what we used to call a target rich environment.
There is just so much on the plate, but I do agree with you. Cylclonaut
We are going to have to start prioritizing the topics of our discussions.
Inside Obama’s Acorn
By their fruits ye shall know them.
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What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.
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This is a story we’ve largely missed. While Obama’s Acorn connection has not gone entirely unreported, its depth, extent, and significance have been poorly understood. Typically, media background pieces note that, on behalf of Acorn, Obama and a team of Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal “motor-voter” bill. In fact, Obama’s Acorn connection is far more extensive. In the few stories where Obama’s role as an Acorn “leadership trainer” is noted, or his seats on the boards of foundations that may have supported Acorn are discussed, there is little follow-up. Even these more extensive reports miss many aspects of Obama’s ties to Acorn.
This is a story we’ve largely missed. While Obama’s Acorn connection has not gone entirely unreported, its depth, extent, and significance have been poorly understood. Typically, media background pieces note that, on behalf of Acorn, Obama and a team of Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal “motor-voter” bill. In fact, Obama’s Acorn connection is far more extensive. In the few stories where Obama’s role as an Acorn “leadership trainer” is noted, or his seats on the boards of foundations that may have supported Acorn are discussed, there is little follow-up. Even these more extensive reports miss many aspects of Obama’s ties to Acorn.
AN ANTI-CAPITALISM AGENDA
To understand the nature and extent of Acorn’s radicalism, an excellent place to begin is Sol Stern’s 2003 City Journal article, “ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities.” (For a shorter but helpful piece, try Steven Malanga’s “Acorn Squash.”)
Sol Stern explains that Acorn is the key modern successor of the radical 1960’s “New Left,” with a “1960’s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism” to match. Acorn, says Stern, grew out of “one of the New Left’s silliest and most destructive groups, the National Welfare Rights Organization.” In the 1960’s, NWRO launched a campaign of sit-ins and disruptions at welfare offices. The goal was to remove eligibility restrictions, and thus effectively flood welfare rolls with so many clients that the system would burst. The theory, explains Stern, was that an impossibly overburdened welfare system would force “a radical reconstruction of America’s unjust capitalist economy.” Instead of a socialist utopia, however, we got the culture of dependency and family breakdown that ate away at America’s inner cities — until welfare reform began to turn the tide.
While Acorn holds to NWRO’s radical economic framework and its confrontational 1960’s-style tactics, the targets and strategy have changed. Acorn prefers to fly under the national radar, organizing locally in liberal urban areas — where, Stern observes, local legislators and reporters are often “slow to grasp how radical Acorn’s positions really are.” Acorn’s new goals are municipal “living wage” laws targeting “big-box” stores like Wal-Mart, rolling back welfare reform, and regulating banks — efforts styled as combating “predatory lending.” Unfortunately, instead of helping workers, Acorn’s living-wage campaigns drive businesses out of the very neighborhoods where jobs are needed most. Acorn’s opposition to welfare reform only threatens to worsen the self-reinforcing cycle of urban poverty and family breakdown. Perhaps most mischievously, says Stern, Acorn uses banking regulations to pressure financial institutions into massive “donations” that it uses to finance supposedly non-partisan voter turn-out drives
According to Stern, Acorn’s radical agenda sometimes shifts toward “undisguised authoritarian socialism.” Fully aware of its living-wage campaign’s tendency to drive businesses out of cities, Acorn hopes to force companies that want to move to obtain “exit visas.” “How much longer before Acorn calls for exit visas for wealthy or middle-class individuals before they can leave a city?” asks Stern, adding, “This is the road to serfdom indeed.”
IN YOUR FACE
Acorn’s tactics are famously “in your face.” Just think of Code Pink’s well-known operations (threatening to occupy congressional offices, interrupting the testimony of General David Petraeus) and you’ll get the idea. Acorn protesters have disrupted Federal Reserve hearings, but mostly deploy their aggressive tactics locally. Chicago is home to one of its strongest chapters, and Acorn has burst into a closed city council meeting there. Acorn protestors in Baltimore disrupted a bankers’ dinner and sent four busloads of profanity-screaming protestors against the mayor’s home, terrifying his wife and kids. Even a Baltimore city council member who generally supports Acorn said their intimidation tactics had crossed the line.
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I'm sick and tired of taxpayer money going to the hood. All these guy's do is stand there with their hands out , and when the mother goose craps out the egg they run to the local crack dealer ,and enrich him/her with money that was supposedly for regrowth/education/whatever. Nothing good comes from acorn just feeding filth and raising up the pimps/whores/drug dealers/and all of obama's heros. What a discusting group this is. Their just like a bunch of canibels feeding on real Americans That work all their lives for the greater good of man kind, just to have it stolen ang gave to a bunch of animals, or should I say negros.
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charity is not part on the governments mandate.
mikatollah
Ah contraire, the government was intended to be made up of citizens from all walks of life, to serve for a short time then go back to their regular life and jobs. It has not been that way for years, mores the pity.
The majority of our supposed representatives are totally out of touch with the majority of the population.
They seem to even have forgotten that they are supposed to work for us. When the Congress includes themselves in all bills such as the Health Care Debacle( they are currently trying to shove on us while exempting themselves) then I may consider the government to be us also.
mikatollah
Are you perchance referring to my comment?
If you don't like the people you have elected then vote for someone else. My guy is doing just just what we sent him to Washington to do, so the problem must be you and your guy.
You are not a majority. You are a very vocal minority.
No ginger, I was responding to a comment by someone named stjoseph4562. If it found its way into your box I apologize.
mikatollah
Two thoughts on this.
1) You could liken Congress to Collage students. In a bygone era, young people left home to further their education, taking their home taught values with them. They understood they were at University to prepare for a better future, they understood they were using other's money. They took it seriously., because they realized they were building on a foundation others had laid and paid for with blood, sweat and tears. It was considered a privilege and valued accordingly. In the same manner, elected representatives, left their home states to do their best to safe guard the values and standards of the people in the area and state that elected them and the country at large.
In current times, young people arriving at collages, are all too frequently seduced into believing everything is about them, and only them. That the reason for being there is to taste all the fruits forbidden them in their home environment. To turn their backs on the values of those paying their way and embrace the values of their current peers. The true purpose–Education in a worthy Field, often becomes a secondary consideration to expanding their social activities. Sadly this is often the case with newly elected Congress persons. Upon leaving their home states and entering the rarefied air of DC, they forget their mandate and pander to the entrenched powers, in exchange for popularity and acceptance.
In both cases ,the parents or the constituents, are left footing the bill with no real value returned to the family or state.
When you have outside interests paying for the education or election, a whole new dynamic is introduced, but that is discussion for another time.
2) If you are interested, you can request these further thoughts.
I disagree with you and think that you have a pretty dark view of human nature. My experience with college education is my own in the 70s and then putting my wife and four kids through college. All of their experiences were different but positive. All are now productive citizens and my grandson recently enrolled in college at Nebraska and seems to be doing well. So I am optimistic about the future.
I think sometimes we fall into a trap of believing that "the good old days" were really all that good. It was a simpler time because someone else was looking out for us and all we had to do was concentrate on ourselves. But now we are the adults and it's our time.
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[...] are those who believe in limited government? Why do they allow Progressives to create these government funded interest groups? The government has become an interest group and they’re working for their interest not [...]
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