WTF?? nobody is talking ACORN??

[wildstoats]

wash DC needs to be burnt to the ground

I'm down ... uh oh...

[wildstoats]

i cant believe this shit. how many millions do these douches get of our tax dollars to do this

Was there a conversation going on that I missed? I don't watch the talking heads so if it was something on some cable news show I'm afraid I will be out of the loop. Anyone care to catch me up?

[s0urce]

I'm too busy reading the Tax code, what's ACORN.

[whiltebeitel]

A democratic election campaign group, based on a grassroots group, with plenty of funds coming thier way.

[gwb72tii]

Breaking News
ACORN's Stimulus
By Matthew Vadum on 1.27.09 @ 3:30PM

With a new president ensconced in the White House, it's time to roll out the goodies for loyal supporters in left-of-center political advocacy groups such as ACORN.

The latest economic stimulus bill promises to do just that by providing a huge bailout --up to $5.2 billion in taxpayer funds -- for some of the same liberal groups that helped get Barack Obama elected.

The three relevant fiscal provisions are buried deep in the $825 billion monstrosity known as the proposed "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009."

Title XII of the spending legislation backed by the Democratic congressional leadership and the Obama administration would dole out $1 billion in old-fashioned slush funds for the Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program. Local politicians love CDBG because it is flexible. The program gives them wide latitude when spending grant money and allows local leaders to use federal dollars on local projects that they wouldn't dream of spending their own local tax dollars on. ACORN loves CDBG because it is adept at lobbying for CDBG funds.

A separate $10 million is provided in the stimulus package to develop or rehabilitate low-income housing under the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP).

But the biggest chunk of the $5.2 billion comes in the form of $4.19 billion for foreclosure relief through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

Although ACORN operatives usually get their hands on such funds only after they have first passed through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or state and local governments, the new spending bill largely eliminates these dawdling middle men, making it easier to get Uncle Sam's largess directly into the hands of the same people who run ACORN's various vote fraud and extortion rackets. And the legislative package provides these funds without the usual prohibition on using government money for lobbying or political activities.

The current version of the stimulus package would allow nonprofit groups to compete with states and localities for $3.44 billion from the $4.19 billion Neighborhood Stabilization Program allocation. The remaining $750 million from the program plus the $10 million in SHOP funds would be set aside exclusively for nonprofit groups.

Probably chief among the groups to benefit from stimulus spending will be ACORN, the infamous network of 100-plus left-wing activist groups.

As everyone who hasn't been in a coma for the last year knows, ACORN and President Obama go way back.

You may remember in October when ACORN's CEO, "chief organizer" Bertha Lewis, appeared in a YouTube video in front of a banner reading "Working Families Party: Fighting for Jobs and Justice," and endorsed Obama for president. (The Working Families Party, a minor New York party, is an ACORN affiliate.) This plea to voters eliminated any doubts that the most diehard benefit-of-the-doubt-giving ACORN supporters may have been harboring that ACORN's voter-registration and get-out-the-vote drives were aimed at getting conservatives and Republicans to the polls.

ACORN's national political action committee, ACORN Votes, also endorsed Obama. ACORN national president Maude Hurd said Obama was "the candidate who best understands and can affect change on the issues ACORN cares about like stopping foreclosures."

You may also remember that during last year's primaries, the Obama campaign paid $832,598 to Citizens Services Inc., another ACORN affiliate, for get-out-the-vote activities. It's also well known that Obama led a voter drive for ACORN affiliate Project Vote, represented ACORN in court, and lectured at ACORN on organizing techniques.

Then-candidate Obama promised a gathering of community organizers in December 2007 that he would involve them in the policy process. "Before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we're going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We're going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."

Apparently President Obama is a man of his word.

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Stimulus Package, ACORN

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[mrsleeve]

ACORN needs to be prosecuted for all kinds of shit from embezzlement, improper use of govt funding, voter fraud, and all kinds of other shit.

ACORN is one of the most corrupt organizations in this country and to deny that fact is laughable.

[blunttech]

ACORN needs to be prosecuted for all kinds of shit from embezzlement, improper use of govt funding, voter fraud, and all kinds of other shit.

ACORN is one of the most corrupt organizations in this country and to deny that fact is laughable.

Old n Stupid will defend them once he wakes up from his nap.

[Trucidatio]

Oh god not another corrupt American organization.

What an unspeakable, nay may I say impossible thing to concieve.



Get the fuck used to it. America is corrupt to the core. Everyone is just trying to screw eachother out of a dollar, all the while pretending to be a good citizen.

There are countless companies that have, and will continue to swindle the U.S. tax payers out of our money.

You really want to be pissed off, read about Goldman-Sachs, they have been screwing us over for nearly 100 years.

[blunttech]

Oh god not another corrupt American organization.

What an unspeakable, nay may I say impossible thing to concieve.



Get the fuck used to it. America is corrupt to the core. Everyone is just trying to screw eachother out of a dollar, all the while pretending to be a good citizen.

There are countless companies that have, and will continue to swindle the U.S. tax payers out of our money.

You really want to be pissed off, read about Goldman-Sachs, they have been screwing us over for nearly 100 years.

yeah lets just bend over and get used to it. america is waking up mother fucker.

Census Bureau Severs Ties With ACORN
The Census Director has sent a letter to the National Headquarters of ACORN notifying the group that it will no longer have a role in conducting the 2010 census.

[mrsleeve]

Census Bureau Severs Ties With ACORN
The Census Director has sent a letter to the National Headquarters of ACORN notifying the group that it will no longer have a role in conducting the 2010 census.

Its about fucking time, this is some of the better news I have heard today. Now if we could get all the unnecessary questions off it we would be all set.

[Trucidatio]

yeah lets just bend over and get used to it. america is waking up mother fucker.

Census Bureau Severs Ties With ACORN
The Census Director has sent a letter to the National Headquarters of ACORN notifying the group that it will no longer have a role in conducting the 2010 census.

Well I had a long response written out, my computer decided to log me out of R3V and lose everything I wrote.

Ill get back to this later

[blunttech]

Well I had a long response written out, my computer decided to log me out of R3V and lose everything I wrote.

Ill get back to this later

i eagerly await your response the way "old n stupid" awaits the new edition of communist monthly

[Aptyp]

AHAHAHAHA


Senile'N'Idle couldn't go a freaking thread without mentioning Rush. What a pathetic excuse of a human being and intellect, if his every argument is based on some radio host that has absolutely no pull in government.

[E30 Cabrio]

MSM - MIA

Not one, but two ACORN offices in different cities gave financial advice on how to basically set up a whore house with 13 year old illegal aliens and how to write them off as dependents and how to scam the system.

The video is unbelievable.

ACORN is a corrupt, criminal enterprise that should be immediately defunded.

Oh, now we know what Obama did as a "Community Organizer" though.

These two kids that went undercover to record these vids have more balls and credibility than the entire MSM combined.

The MSM is too busy investigating people like Joe the Plumber instead of investigating criminal enterprises like ACORN that is getting 10's of Millions of taxpayers money.

Fuck the MSM and fuck their apologists and their enablers.

[E30 Cabrio]

"Hello, I am a prostitute, I have a bunch of underage girls from El Salvidor I'd like to subsidize into my rental place, Can you help me?"

As crazy as it sounds, not one, but two different ACORN offices said "yes" and gave instructions on how to do it and how to claim them as write offs/dependents.

Prostitute = "Perfomance artist"

13 year old illegal alien prostitutes = "Dependents"