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Posted on 03/05/2010 2:39:34 PM PST by neverdem
ACORN may be fading away, thanks to government restrictions on its funding in the wake of the scandal in which its counselors advised undercover journalists on how to evade the law. But this does nothing to change the environment that propelled the radical activist group to national power.
ACORN is part of a huge network of nonprofits that continues to promote a big-government agenda in cities across America using taxpayer money. That network is alive and well today, even if ACORN itself dies.
This movement's roots go back to the godfather of community organizing, Chicago's Saul Alinsky, who in the 1930s envisioned local grassroots groups in poor areas that would mobilize residents into politically powerful coalitions.
In the 1960s, the architects of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty decided to federalize the Alinksy model by sending billions of taxpayer dollars to community groups, with a vague notion that these would somehow "empower" residents in their neighborhoods and thus improve their lives.
Instead, over time these nonprofits became the new political clubhouses in many areas -- and the activists who ran them became our next generation of politicians.
In New York, by the 1970s and '80s, the road to political office increasingly ran through taxpayer-funded nonprofits -- as politicians like Pedro Espada and Ramon Velez in The Bronx and Vito Lopez in Brooklyn used community groups as launching pads for political careers...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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In the 1960s, the architects of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty decided to federalize the Alinksy model by sending billions of taxpayer dollars to community groups.
All part of the plan.
“ACORN’s fruits - Billions to help pols, not the poor”
That is so discriminating...how come it was only for Polish people?
Watch your statehouses closely people.
It looks like GOP legislators were the driving force behind the forced unionization of home care workers in michigan. Campaign payoffs and support seems to have been the reason.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/12116
To ACORN, politicians are the only people capable of helping the poor ... so electing nanny-state politicans is the function of their anti-poverty charity. Makes sense to me.
SnakeDoc
Little late to the game, aren’t they?
More specifically these non-profits support democrat party and it is a corrupt system of bribery for political power. We MUST destroy their entire infrastructure or they will defeat us...
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