Posted on 06/29/2009 8:18:39 PM PDT by vadum
ACORN, which played a starring role in creating the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to add insult to injury by harassing lenders across the nation with protests tomorrow in an effort to coerce them into supporting President Obama's Affordable foreclosure-avoidance program.
The four companies targeted are Goldman Sachs, HomEq Servicing, American Home Mortgage, and OneWest.
ACORN plans to hit Dallas, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York City, Wilmington (Del.), Columbus (Ohio), Houston, Little Rock, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Seattle.
But let's not forget that ACORN helped to cause the mortgage bubble by strongarming banks into making loans they shouldn't have. And cheering them on was ACORN's lawyer, Barack Obama, who contributed to the increasingly hostile environment for banks when he represented plaintiffs in the 1995 class action lawsuit Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank.
ACORN refuses to acknowledge the role that it and the CRA played in the current crisis on Wall Street, and President Obama continues to support stronger enforcement of the disastrous law.
The final paragraph of the press release is unintentionally hilarious:
Because millions of Americans are losing their homes, neighborhoods and the economy are in ruins, and while the "Home Wrecker 4" are taking tax dollars and giving away huge bonuses, they refuse to do even the bare minimum for American homeowners by signing up for the Obama foreclosure plan.
Millions of Americans are losing their homes and neighborhoods and the economy are in ruins because of groups like ACORN that interfere with markets and force banks to do stupid things.
And ACORN too has taken in millions of dollars in taxpayer funding and is utterly unaccountable. The group even covered up a million dollar embezzlement for eight years......
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
What a bunch of pukes. Have they ever had a real job?
Well, Obama did say he wanted a domestic civilian force which was as organized and as well funded as our military.
Conservatives need to counter-protest these thugs.
Independent private detectives need to gather evidence on these thugs and then expose them to the American people as well as those in high places that support them and cover up their dirty deeds.
Where’s a plumbers and pipefitters union with axe handles when you need them?
Shame there's not time to organize a counter protest.
Well, it looks like ACORN didn’t waste time using their stimulus money. How can they be called rent-a-thugs if they are being paid by us? They’re government funded thugs, aren’t they? The New Stasi?
“Because millions of Americans are losing their homes, neighborhoods and the economy are in ruins, and while the “Home Wrecker 4” are taking tax dollars and giving away huge bonuses, they refuse to do even the bare minimum for American homeowners by signing up for the Obama foreclosure plan.”
WTH is that supposed to mean, the “Home Wrecker 4”? Seriesly. Goldman, Wells, Chase/WaMu and...???
How come we don’t see bankers picketing ACORN meetings?
And besides, didn’t ACORN change its name...isn’t is ENCORN now?
Well, I like the harass Goldman Sachs part...
“Where’s a plumbers and pipefitters union with axe handles when you need them?”
...or Hell’s Angels for that matter!
BINGO!
Reparations, plain and simple.
Houston too???
Well, it only takes one to counter a mob like that...
Good point. Hard to believe these thugs would be saving the cash or paying down debt. Its all just beer money to them.
The good news is... banks aren’t lending money to ACORN pukes...
Who moved this out of Breaking News!?
Your congress is giving these worthless POS's your money...they're (congress & ACORN) laughing at your stupid ass.
They (congress & ACORN) get to traipse around and do nothing while you have to work to give them money.
How much longer will you tolerate this?
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