Obama's Job plan for America: One day we will ALL be working for ACORN

ACORN MOTTO: "ACORN doesn’t follow the rules, we do what we need to do to make our voices heard." http://209.85.173.104/searchq=cache:FmH6CsEBlpsJ:https://www.acorn.org/fileadmin/ACORN_Reports/ACORN_ANN_REPT2_copy.pdf+voter+registration
Racial Demographics: Over the past five years more than half of the new organizers hired by ACORN have come from within the membership or the constituency. People of color now comprise more than 65 percent of ACORN’s staff. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2707
Organizing Coordinator: Starting pay at $60,000 and 10-12 weeks of vacation The wages, benefits, and vacations are so liberal that they cannot get rid of staff.)
Entry Level: Starting salary $26,500 You expect long hours, low pay and the opportunity to practice a peculiarly American sort of activism: a job defined not by advocating for others but teaching them to advocate for themselves. http://www.chieforganizer.org/index.php?id=57&no_cache=1&tx_eeblog%5BcategoryId%5D=17&tx_eeblog%5Bpointer%5D=0&tx_eeblog%5BshowUid%5D=29184
Perks: Housing: Free ACORN has rental properties that its employees get to rent for below market rates. (because they are poor :) Health Insurace: FREE Paid by Obama Education: Free (And we know this by listening to Obama)

Also see: Obama/ACORN: A side by side History (documented) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105002/posts ACORN on Republicans the resurgence of the Republican Party in Congress dramatically changed the political picture for ACORN. It posed new threats to long-standing ACORN campaigns and meant a loss of support for ACORN initiatives. It was not, however, anything ACORN had not seen before. From its beginning, ACORN had fought against politicians who resisted their ideas and their work to build power for low- and moderate-income people. The history of ACORN shows it is stronger than ever and better prepared for the continued struggle. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2745
ACORN on Democrats Insider Opportunities With a Democratic President and Congress, the national government became more receptive to reforms promoting the political power of low- and moderate-income people. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2746
In 2007, ACORN political action committee endorsed Barack Obama for President. This is an important nod from a group that understands the urgent needs of Americans most hurt by this economy and how to organize for social and economic justice. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=289192
Date	ACORN	Social Policies affecting USA	Obama and Democrats
2005-2008	ACORN pressured Congress, state legislatures, and local officials should pass strong anti-predatory lending legislation that would protect consumers from abusive practices, which disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities. CRA/ACORN part of housing mess today. http://acorn.org/fileadmin/HMDA/2006/Rate_Shock_Report.pdf	Consumer protection	Chris Dodd/ democrats
2004	Increase in Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Funds	Gov. free funding	Agrees/ Voted Yes
2006	Repeal of the Estate Tax For The Wealthy (with Minimum Wage Provision)	Estate Tax	Agrees/ Voted Yes
2006	K-12 Education Funding Increase for Fiscal Year 2006	Education	Agrees/ Voted Yes
2006	Amendment to Reduce Social Security Earnings For Legalized Immigrants	Illegal Immigration	Agrees/ Voted Yes
2006	Bill to Limit Bankruptcy Protections for Consumers http://www.acorn.org/fileadmin/Centers/Press/Report/ACORN_Scorecard-ltr.pdf	Bankruptcy Law	Agrees/ Voted Yes
2006	ACORN Housing has recently been selected as one of the city’s official district planners to assist residents with developing neighborhood plans. http://www.acorn.org/fileadmin/KatrinaRelief/report/Planning_Principles.pdf	Neighborhood/ City/Plannning	Agrees/ Voted Yes
2007	ACORN and Countrywide have signed an agreement of “best practices.” Sen. Chris Dodd, and Democrats support ACORN and received special treatment from Countrywide. Obama, campaign advisor Johnson also has close ties to and loans from Countrywide Financial Corp. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12413	Refinancing/ forclosure/	preferential treatment..to democrats
2008	ACORNCommunity Leaders Join Together to Push for Quality, Affordable Healthcare for Every American	Govt. supported Healthcare for All Americans	Obama's plan
2008	ACORN is opposing privatization efforts, promoting democratic accountability, and aggressively pressuring school systems to bring schools in poor neighborhoods up to the standards of the schools in wealthy neighborhoods. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=43	School choice	Obama agrees
2008	The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_o_ jesse_knows_133450.htm?page=0	Isreal Policy	Obama and .Jesse Jackson Rainbow coalition
2008	Health care campaign's steering committee includes ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America's Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Center for Community Change, MoveOn, NEA, National Women's Law Center, Planned Parenthood, SEIU, UFCW, and USAction. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=8691&/index.php?id=10964=&L=1&tx_ttnews%5Bpointer%5D=8&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=22232&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=12017&cHash=317a53bc6b	Planned Parenthood	Obama/dems agree
2007	Congress votes to raise the minimum wage/part of Iraq war vote. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=11077	Minimum wage	Obama/dems agree
2003	On October 17, the Institute for America’s Future and ACORN released a study documenting the impact of the costs of the Iraq war http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=8495	Iraq war	Obama wants same
2004	Globalization; a short history of economic development after World War II; foreign policy based on trade disagreements; NAFTA; worker's rights and good/bad trade agreements. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=4231	Foreign policy	obama/dems agree
2006	ACORN Members Rally for Immigration Reform www.acorn.org/index.php?id=10300	Open border/amnesty	obama/dems agree
2004	commitment to provide better translation services for patients who do not speak English. https://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12041	Multiple language services	Obama/dems agree
2007	Against tax breaks for businesses, support higher taxes to support low income www.acorn.org/community/index.php?id=16991&tx_ttnews%5Bpointer%5D=1&cHash=115568e7c0	For Tax increases	Obama/dems agree
2004	"moral values" appealed only to people who oppose abortion, gay marriage and stem-cell research, http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=17610&/index.php?id=4201=&L=1&tx_ttnews%5Bpointer%5D=12&cHash=9537ed8101	Gays, abortion	Obama's values same
1994	CORN played an important role in the passage and implementation of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, or "Motor- Voter," Act. After its passage, ACORN members attended President Clinton's signing ceremony http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2746	Lax Voter registration	Obama worked for ACORN
2008	Forced companies to clean up, move, or cancel plans for toxic chemical plants, dumps, discharges, or waste incinerators in Memphis http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2726	Health and Environmental Justice	Obama/dems
1984	Starting after the ACORN® 80 Plan and reaching its heights in the Rainbow Lobby work in 1988, ACORN® found ways to work effectively with other progressive groups, such as labor, churches- and political movements. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2748	Far left	Jesse Jackson
1990	ACORN Involved in Union Embezzlement where union funds were used in re-election campaign http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2004/0002275937&EDATE	Union Issues	Do what I say phil.
.1996	ACORN bilks AmeriCorps AmeriCorps grant to increase ACORN membership, a violation of federal guidelines. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2004/0002275937&EDATE	political advocacy	Do what I say phil.
2003	ACORN had violated the National Labor Relations Act and was required to rehire and pay restitution to employees terminated for attempting to form a union except the want all other businesses to unionize. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2004/0002275937&EDATE	Stealing union funds, pay	Do what I say phil.
2004	The data below focus on 64 schools in neighborhoods where ACORN has traditionally organized; all of these schools are in low-income communities-- except they have a higher turnover rate http://www.acorn.org/fileadmin/ACORN_Reports/ACORN_turnover_study.pdf	State School system vs ACORN neighborhood schools	Do what I say phil.
1995	ACORN promotes ballot initiatives and local ordinances to force businesses to pay higher minimum wages, ACORN sued the state of California to have its employees exempted from the state minimum wage. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2004/0002275937&EDATE	Minimum Wage

	ACORN’s first target was H&R Block, the nation’s largest tax preparer. In the first two months of the year, ACORN members in 54 cities held 402 pickets, protests and demonstrations at local H&R Block locations – successfully getting the company to the negotiating table. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12029	example of Demonstrations and sitins to coerce
	ACORN Related Organizations http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=4143
	Project Vote www.projectvote.org Project Vote is the leading technical assistance and direct service provider to the civic participation community. Since its founding in 1982, Project Vote has provided professional training,		Obama worked for this group
	ACORN Institute www.acorninstitute.org The ACORN Institute provides low income communities the means to learn about and tackle a broad array of social issues. It provideseducation on community organizational models, and promotes neighborhood awareness, legal assistance, and global-local connections. The ACORN Institute bases its work on problems in low income communities that have been identified during the years of community organizing done by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the housing development and counseling work of the ACORN Housing Corporation.
	WalMart Alliance for Reform Now www.warnwalmart.org WARN, a community alliance, provides the voice for citizens to force Wal-Mart to be accountable to community standards and values. In conjunction with the Wal-Mart Workers Association (WWA), WARN is building a national organization that has the power to affect change in the business practices of Wal-Mart and its affiliated businesses.
	ACORN Housing Corporation www.acornhousing.org AHC works in low and very low-income neighborhoods where over 90% of the residents are African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and/or recent immigrants from Central America or the West Indies. This includes communities such as Flatbush and East New York in Brooklyn; Englewood and North Lawndale in Chicago; and the communities south of the Salt River in Phoenix.
	Living Wage Resource Center www.livingwagecampaign.org The ACORN Living Wage Resource Center tracks the living wage movement and provide materials and strategies to living wage organizers nationwide.
	ACORN Law on the Web www.acornlaw.org ACORN law is legal activity pursued by ACORN and its allies. Its practice is informed by ACORN perspectives on social change in general and legal practice in particular
	KNON Radio www.knon.org KNON is a non-profit, listener-supported radio station, deriving its main source of income from on-air pledge drives and from underwriting or sponsorships by local small businesses
	Service Employees International Union - Local 100 www.seiu100.org		endorsed Obana
	Service Employees International Union - Local 880 www.seiu880.org		endorsed Obana
	Social Policy www.socialpolicy.org Social Policy, a quarterly journal covering community and labor organizing, is now published jointly by the ACORN Institute and AISJ in collaboration with the Organizer's Forum.		Wrote article about Obama
	Tax Preparation: ACORN provides free tax preparation for low- and moderate-income families in 45 cities with plans to expand to 70 cities by 2006. ACORN provides Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) programs to help low- and moderate-income families, including informing them about the EITC and Child Tax Credit refunds. http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=8393	Tax Preparation Service
	Leadership Training http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2707
	ACORN Association Board

This whole “community organizing” stuff is total crap. Organizing for what? To demand that they be taken care of and be allowed to remain in their dependent, adolescent mess. How about getting a job. Or working harder if you already have one. Finishing school(it is free). Keeping your pants on until married. Taking responsibility for your children. It’s not rocket science. But to a liberal it is political science. And that’s the problem.
As to ACORN it needs to be defunded by government. We should not be made to pay to fund our enemies.

Can’t lick em, join em

I’m sure their hiring quota of republicans is pretty low, they might lose their bipartisan nonprofit status

important dates in acorn history

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Tax Preparation: ACORN provides free tax preparation for low- and moderate-income families in 45 cities with plans to expand to 70 cities by 2006. ACORN provides Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) programs to help low- and moderate-income families, including informing them about the EITC and Child Tax Credit refunds.

A google search for VITA yields:

http://www.vita-irs.org/

http://www.vita-volunteers.org/index.htm

From the above vita-irs.org website "about us" page on May 2006:

Owing to the popular name brand recognition that VITA enjoyed, it now appears that VITA will remain VITA, a part of VRPP. On May 18, 2006 a search on www.irs.gov for "Volunteer Return Preparation Program" returned 9281 results and for "VRPP", 241 results. The results relate to the training materials, testing, quality and a wealth of other information where these terms are used. No definitive description about VRPP itself was found within the first 30 results, so here is an informal and unofficial description."

"VRPP appears to be the name given to an organization that uses volunteer power, and has four main components: (1) VITA - Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (2) Military VITA - same as (1) but focused on Military personnel (3) TCE - Tax Counseling for the Elderly, and (4) AARP - American Association of Retired persons."

From the aforementioned Vita page on Feb 2009:

"On February 27, 2008 a search on www.irs.gov for "Volunteer Return Preparation Program" yielded 21 results and for "VRPP", 5 results. One result was the definition of VRPP in "Helpful Definitions and Acronyms" close to very short definitions of VITA and TCE."

" TCE – Tax Counseling for the Elderly – A program run by trained volunteers, offering free tax preparation services to people 60 years or older.

VITA – Volunteer Income Tax Assistance – A program run by trained volunteers offering free tax preparation services to low-income taxpayers.

VRPP – Volunteer Return Preparation Programs – Programs that provide free tax return preparation assistance, e.g. Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE)."

This page:

http://www.vita-volunteers.org/VITA_Site_Location_Information.htm

links to the page where you can search for available vita information about your city:

Result for "Kansas City":

This leads to a spreadsheet from the link called:

"Center for Budget and Public Policy: Kansas"

The spreadsheet reads:

Territory: Kansas City
Formal Name of Coalition: KC Cash Coalition, Inc
Coalition website: KCCASH.org
Chairs Name: Mike Nield - UMB Bank, N.A.
Coalition Chair's e-mail address/Phone #: michael.nield@umb.com/816-860-7529

Date Coalition Started and Geographical Area Covered: May 2003 - Kansas City metro area (MO and KS)

Strategies - briefly define each strategy, if applicable Outreach Strategy: Assist partner members involved in IDAs, home buying, debt consolidation, opening bank accounts and other asset-building/financial stability programs by making referrals and hosting partners and their programs at coalition tax preparation sites.

Tax Preparation Strategy: Providing quality service to low income individuals and families at one of its tax preparation sites in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Asset-Building Strategy: Use EITC to promote IDAs, home-buying opportunities, retirement savings opportunities and other asset-building programs. Will achieve this by working closely with existing member organizations and seeking out new partners to accomplish these goals. Also see Outreach Strategy above.

Next section of spreadsheet lists "Core Planning Group" and details:

Burt Smoliar - Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Law Firm

IRS SPEC

Kansas City Kansas Community College

Kansas City Power and Light

Missouri Gas Energy

Neighborhood Housing Services of Kansas City, MO

The Family Conservancy

The Salvation Army

UMB Bank, N.A.

United Way of Greater Kansas City, MO

United Way of Wyandotte County

Listed as "Other Coalition Members:

Assoc. for the Improvement of Minorities (AIM - IRS)

Bank of America

Board of Public Utilities - Kansas City, KS

Central Bank

El Centro Inc.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Housing Authority of Kansas City, MO

Legal Aid - Low Income Taxpayer Clinic

UMKC Tax Clinic

Unified Government of Kansas City, KS

US Bank

US Congressman Dennis Moore

Next section lists "Significant Coalition activities:

Significant Coalition Activities:

(List major items only, using bulleted style)

Received VITA Grant funds, which enabled the coalition to hire training and program coordinator's, providing much needed relief to the coalition's all volunteer Board and IRS-SPEC advisor.

Coalition sites prepared over 4,000 federal returns for FY09, with a EITC rate of nearly 31% and a direct deposit rate on refund returns of 57%.

The coalition, through several of its member organizations, reached over a million households in FY09 with outreach mail outs containing information on everything from EITC, Education and Saver Credits to the benefits of e-filing and direct deposit.

Next Section lists "Planned Future Activities"

Increase return preparation reach into the disabled community by establishing a VITA site at an organization assisting disabled individuals and rove to one or two other locations with disabled clients.

Continue working with member organizations regarding asset building and financial stability

Re-applying for the VITA Grant

It looks like everybody in Kansas City including the IRS works for ACORN derived organizations.

(And ACORN likes to cheat on income tax returns as demonstrated by the James OKeefe videos.)

Moving on to the KCCASH.ORG website reveals:

From KCCASH.ORG "About Us" page:

About Us (KCCASH.ORG):

* KC CASH (Creating Assets Savings & Hope) is a coalition established in 2003 by non-profits, financial institutions, educational institutions, city, state and federal government organizations and the business community.

* KC CASH offers free tax preparation of federal and state (Kansas and Missouri only) returns to low-moderate income working families in the Kansas City metro area.

* KC CASH became a 501(c)(3) organization in 2007. Your tax deductible donation will help thousands of families achieve financial stability

From the KCCASH "Newsletter" Link:

KC CASH VITA sites completed some 4,400 Federal tax returns totaling over $5.2 million dollars in refunds back to our community. These funds are more important to our clients than ever this year, given the current economic climate.

You are uniquely poised to serve as champions for the mission of KC CASH. In your capacity as a volunteer, please take the opportunity to thank your fellow volunteers for their support, past and present. Encourage your friends and co-workers to volunteer their time with you at your favorite VITA site.

I share your concerns about the future and deeply appreciate your willingness to serve low-income individuals and families.

Thank you again for supporting KC CASH.

Sincerely,

Mike Nield

President

KC CASH Coalition, Inc.

A BING search for "KCCASH.ORG" yields:

http://www.southtown.org/stc/node/87

Southtown.org is the homepage of the Southtown Council.

Their Homepage Header Reads:

KC CASH Coalition - V.I.T.A. (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) Needs Volunteers

The BOARD OF DIRECTORS listed for the Southtown Council includes:

President Stancia Jenkins UMKC

1st Vice President Marie Jennings Stowers Inst.- Medical Research

2nd Vice President Madeline Romious AT&T

Treasurer John Hagg Commerce Bank

Secretary Bill Egelhoff Egelhoff & Associates, LLC

Another link on the Vita-Volunteers.org search for programs in "Kansas City" is for http://www.tax-coalition.org/.

Their mission statement:

Mission Statement:

The National Community Tax Coalition seeks to improve the economic well being of low- and moderate-income individuals, families, and communities by building a movement to dramatically increase access to tax credits and benefits and asset-building opportunities.

Building on Coalition affiliates' service delivery and public policy expertise, the Coalition will serve as a unified voice on tax policies and practices impacting our constituents.

The Coalition will improve the effectiveness and impact of affiliates providing tax outreach and assistance and asset-building opportunities, and will work to meet its mission through advocacy, coalition-building, outreach, and capacity-building support to affiliates.

The "Advocacy Central" page states:

The National Community Tax Coalition (NCTC) maintains and expands access to the tax system and tax credits for millions of low-wage workers and their families each year. NCTC focuses in particular on the thousands of working families served by free tax preparation and asset building programs nationwide.

In past years, the EITC has come under Congressional and Administrative attack and affiliates have banded together to fight against drastic cuts in the credit. NCTC and its affliates have also stood strong in the face of proposals that would discourage or deny the EITC to low-income families, specifcally by adopting a pre-certification and targeted audit program of EITC taxpayers. Most recently, NCTC was successful in getting the federal VITA Grant Program adopted, $8 million in new funding to enable free tax preparation programs to extend their desired services into hard-to-reach communities.

In the current climate of Congressional leaders and the President-Elect proposing to make the tax code more progressive, NCTC aims to be the leading advocate for low-wage workers on issues related to fair tax policy and greater financial security. We serve as a trusted resource for afﬁliates (through the State Advocacy Leaders Network), policy makers, partners, and the media, and we invite you to join the cause!

The contact information for this group is :

National Community Tax Coalition

29 E. Madison, Suite 910

Chicago, IL 60602

(312) 252-0280 (phone)

(312) 252-0285 (fax)

www.tax-coalition.org

a program of the Center for Economic Progress

The EITC is the tax credit that supports unmarried baby-mamas with payments on for each dependent claimed. EITC was instituted under G.H.W. (read my lips no new taxes) Bush. Apparently, audits of EITC payments from fraudulent tax returns are their biggest concern. So creating fake children to get fake payments must be a booming industry. Tax Fraud with billions of dollars of transfer payments is being carried out with the help of the IRS.

The IRS gives out the names of VITA volunteers for free income tax help according to the vita-volunteers.org website. ....

Thanks for the ping, Cindy.

You’re welcome jer33 3.

Your comments stop at 3/13/2009 on you ‘in forum’ page. Any ideas why?