Posted on 02/12/2010 11:56:47 AM PST by American Dream 246
The Washington Times is adding ACORN to the list of outrageous earmarks in Obama's fiscal 2011 budget. ACORN, the embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued, leftist community organizing group, is slated to receive nearly $4 billion from a taxpayer-funded slush fund.
The money will come from the Community Development Block Grant, one of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's longest-running programs. The HUD Web site cryptically defines the grant's purpose as providing "communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs," not a reassuring description given the group's recent past history of aiding the community through gratuitous misappropriation of funds.
Has Congress already forgotten the Sept. 2009 ban it passed on funding for ACORN and ACORN affiliates? Or the video that led to the ban, footage showing ACORN employees urging individuals they thought were a prostitute and her pimp to set up a brothel and advising the pair on evading taxpaying? It would have had a hard time doing so, considering that ACORN is currently suing the federal government for the attempted ban.
Though the largely Democratic House Appropriations Committee voted against the block last December, it is a Bill Clinton-appointee, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Gershon, who has truly aided the corrupt ACORN cause. Also in December, Gershon issued a federal injunction against the Congressional funding ban, crying that it ran afoul of the Constitution because under the ban, ACORN was "singled out by Congress for punishment that directly and immediately affects their ability to continue to obtain federal funding, in the absence of any judicial, or even administrative, process adjudicating guilt."
In essence, Gershon has said ACORN can't be punished now because the Obama administration failed to punish it earlier -- through a long-overdue, much-needed criminal investigation into the group. But this is absurd, because ACORN's not receiving such funding does not constitute its being deprived of a right. The funding is a gift, and Congress has the right to cancel contracts whenever it feels like it.
Just ask Blackwater, a company we are wondering whether Gershon would so heroically rush to defend were it to make the same move ACORN is now making
that is the dems election kitty... believe it .. we need some money bombs ... soon...
I thought that ACORN was legally banned from receiving federal money, or did they repeal that?
If ACORN gets one nickel we should all REFUSE to pay taxes-!!! What’re they gonna do- lock us ALL up-?!?!
THEY ARE SCARED AS HELL... A WAY WILL APPEAR FOR US TO FOLLOW.. IT WILL ... I FEEL IT COMING AND IT WILL BE GLORIOUS..
They’re not nearly as scared as we are ANGRY-!! If the November election doesn’t start to fix this mess, maybe a bunch of us with rifles can-!
“I thought that ACORN was legally banned from receiving federal money, or did they repeal that?”
Obama got around this by earmarking the 4 billion as “community” grants. This money will be controlled by the cities, or the state, not the feds. Of course, this is probably “conversion” and totally illegal.....this means nothing to Obama.
These bastards just won’t quit. They must suspect,and rightly so,there would be no Dem party if they weren’t funneling cash to organizations like this.
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Just from the headline I know where, if he was serious, Obama could immediately cut $4 billion in spending from the budget.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE REPUBLICANS
This is criminal.
It decreases the budget for the Coast Guard and Border Patrol, but increases the Budget for the Secret Service and Americorps.
Isn’t the manned space program being axed because of a $3 billion shortfall? Sheesh ... Also, de-fund Planned Parenthood, they get about $100 million of our tax dollars every year.
There has been a war inside NASA since Bush took the money away from Hansen(global warming fame) and put it on manned space flight. The current winners, Global warming, inside NASA are enjoying their new found money. There is going to be a plus up of many many billions to create the project called Planet Skin. Just google it and follow Cisco lead. They have been planning this for years. NSF is in charge of the charge to build a whole new set of Satellites for this new surveillance systems that will tattle on everything on earth and of course university professors are going to write the software to show us the error of our ways.
manned space flight is dead until O leaves office. The first hick up on ISS and this admin will cut and run. This is rocket science and this admin does not understand any of it.
my opinion... i wished it weren’t so but then again i wished W was still there.
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Those of us who get checks already have taxes taken out by the time the money gets to us. No way to stop it.
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Which cartridge-? There were a number of them-!
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