Posted on 01/27/2009 6:11:30 AM PST by Joiseydude
Barack Obama has spent the last week basically paying off some campaign debts. He gave a nod to his far left base by closing Guantanamo and stopping the military tribunals (without any plan for housing the detainees or prosecuting them), he pandered to the feminists by rescinding the Mexico City rule preventing federal monies from being used to promote abortion overseas. He had most of the left on their feet cheering when he took on Rush Limbaugh.
So I suppose it's not surprising that stuck inside his monstrosity of a "stimulus bill," would be a multi-billion dollar gift to his friends at ACORN:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Oh, man. How dumb can the Democrats get? This is what nearly sunk the TARP plan. Get those fingers warmed up for dialing the 202 area code numbers.
ACORN is to America what the Brownshirts were to Germany.
It is the beginning of the end. Slowly but surely the noose is getting tightened.
The House Democrats trillion dollar spending bill, approved on January 21 by the Appropriations Committee and headed to the House floor next week for a vote, could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN has been accused of perpetrating voter registration fraud numerous times in the last several elections; is reportedly under federal investigation; and played a key role in the irresponsible schemes that caused a financial meltdown that has cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars since last fall.
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republicans are asking a simple question: what does this have to do with job creation? Are Congressional Democrats really going to borrow money from our children and grandchildren to give handouts to ACORN in the name of economic stimulus?
Incredibly, the Democrats bill makes groups like ACORN eligible for a $4.19 billion pot of money for neighborhood stabilization activities. Funds for this purpose were authorized in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, signed into law in 2008. However, these funds were limited to state and local governments. Now House Democrats are taking the unprecedented step of making ACORN and other groups eligible for these funds:
Haven’t heard much about ACORN lately. Are the voter fraud investigations still ongoing, or have Barry and his minions killed them?
Hmmm. Your local Neighbors Spy on Neighbors Committee, I imagine. Nothing stabilizes a neighborhood like the possibility of being turned in to the KGB.
This is an outrage. How is this different than having “lobbiests” in your pocket?
Not just ACORN would be in line to receive these funds. Other “nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities will be lining up with their hands out. And for what purpose? What exactly does “neighborhood stabilization” mean?
It means the federal government is about to give a huge amount of money to the very same people who helped get us in this mess in the first place. ACORN could now profit from the crisis by purchasing foreclosed homes for a song and selling them at a tidy profit - ensnaring more luckless victims in their mortgage scams.
The chances of the Obama administration investigating the illegal political activities of this so-called “non-partisan” group are just about zero. But this is one fight the GOP cannot afford to back down from. They must not only raise a ruckus about this codicile giving ACORN and their friends billions of dollars, they must also push for a federal investigation of the activities of ACORN in previous elections for purposes of revoking their tax exempt status as a non-political entity.
..unless the public is aware, and the MSM will be busy making sure their not since they are accomplices in the fraud that this election has been, buying the American Presidency and changing it's values and history and way of life will become the norm. The voting laws,like many that the liberal socialist agenda find "obstruction" will just be overrode with the complacency. CALL, WRITE, EMAIL, YOUR REPRESENTITIVES TODAY, TO VOICE YOUR CONCERN ABOUT VOTER FRAUD AND REWARDING ILLEGAL BEHAVOIR!
Thomas Jefferson
Transparency you can believe in. (sarcasm).
He does have to get reelected. And he needs somebody to PAY so he can PLAY. Those financial gurus are in dire straights and some people are going to watch carefully where they send their campaign donations.... spread the wealth ..’you know’.
Acorn just might get a lot but no way will it get billions... That would be truly Hitlerian where 0 hires and pays his own troops of ideologues,enforcers and block committee spies and tattle tales
0 would love to do it but doesn’t have the cojones
Reward money.
Just like some other bailouts, reward money for being part of the master plan.
21st century pillage.
After all, what are you going to do about it? Vote them out of office?
He may be right about that last bit...
Plus ACORN budget is in the tens of millions? How could they handle billions. I think La Raza also has grandiose dreams of getting millions from Feds for doing mortgage counseling and creation for Hispanics
B.O. might as well just put that 4.1 Bil in his campaign fund...sickening!
Time to start sending pictures of “brown shirts” to Congress and Obama.
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