Posted on 01/23/2009 1:59:05 PM PST by Sub-Driver
ACORN Could Get Billions from Democrats' Trillion Dollar Spending Plan "Job Creation" Bill Offers Taxpayer-Funded Bonanza for Organization Reportedly Under Federal Investigation
Washington, Jan 23 - 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:
“For a further additional amount for ‘Community Development Fund,’ $4,190,000,000, to be used for neighborhood stabilization activities related to emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes as authorized under division B, title III of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–289), of which—
“(1) not less than $3,440,000,000 shall be allocated by a competition for which eligible entities shall be States, units of general local government, and nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities[.]”
“(2) up to $750,000,000 shall be awarded by competition to nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities to provide community stabilization assistance […]”
The House Democrats’ trillion dollar spending bill also includes $1 billion for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. CDBG funds are given by the federal government to state and local governments which often contract with nonprofits for services related to the purpose of the grant.
ACORN knows how to secure CDBG funds. Audit reports filed by ACORN’s headquarters with the Office of Management and Budget show that ACORN spent $1,588,599 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program funds from FY 2003 through FY 2007. It is not clear from these records when or from what source the funds were awarded to ACORN. It is also not clear whether ACORN chapters or affiliates have received CDBG grants on their own.
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) repeatedly urged President George W. Bush and other federal officials to withhold taxpayer funds from ACORN, including $17.2 million in federal grants awarded in December 2008 after numerous allegations of wrongdoing in connection with ACORN’s election activities were reported by the news media.
Leader Boehner also released a study of federal records in October 2008 listing tens of millions in federal grants received by ACORN. A new updated and more expansive study reveals that ACORN has actually received millions more than first thought. A review of the Federal Register and news releases issued by federal agencies showed that ACORN was awarded more than $53 million in taxpayer dollars. This amount does not reflect the millions more ACORN has received in federal block grant funds awarded to state and local agencies which passed them on to ACORN.
republicans should go undercover and get jobs with these groups.
they should video tape or record what goes on. then get tapes
to sean hannity and others like him.
ACORN is tired of getting its funding from regional HUD shakedowns and public housing tenants, they want the big haul. You didn’t think the left was supported by private dollars did you?
Are you satisfied with the "message" you sent?
lets start our own leftwing groups to compete for that money. Got any names?
Social Action Services? Community Stability Network? Heck, lets start hundreds of them. Like ACORN did.
Simply payback for perfectly executed massive and pervasive voter fraud.
Congress Watch ping!
We may as well get used to it because the Republicans have neither the power nor the will to put a stop to this kind of theft of taxpayer dollars even when it will contribute even more to their own demise. This is why I think they’re all a bunch of whores, they’ll go along even with something like this (or at least not put themselves out to fight it) even though it hurts them. I know they don’t care if our taxes are stolen for other dishonest uses but when they’re stolen for things that will be directly attributable to their own demise, all I can think is that they’re only there to keep the power and perks they still have , if not acquire what little more they can get while there. There is NO one there representing the interests of taxpaying individuals, conservative principles, or even our rights engraved in the Constitution and Bill Of Rights. All of government is a brothel. Nothing less than a second revolution will change this, and that won’t happen because either people don’t care or actively support measures which allow them to leech more and more off of the productivity of fewer and fewer people. They don’t care that they kill the golden goose as long as it survives in their lifetime. People who have so little incentive to better themselves by sacrifice and work, certainly don’t care about their children’s future, or they couldn’t keep pumping them out like rabbits to have the kind of lives and futures they’re going to have-another generation on welfare, turning to crime for “the good life” , careless of others and holding human life cheap. I don’t even think they have any humanity, they are just organisms fighting for survival, as good of one as they can get at no cost to themselves.
If this happens, I predict there will not be another Republican controlled presidency or congress in our lifetimes.
“Got any names?”
Sure! How about:
Associated Social Services Helping Old Lesbians Eat.
Infiltrate. It’s the only away we will ever defeat ACORN. That organization is destroying America.
Oh yeah, then we will never get “O” out.
Between this and the millions of illegal immigrants being fast-tracked to citizenship, there won’t be. The Republicans still in office will go with the program to hold what they have, no matter if they ran on promises to protect our Second Amendment rights, or oppose further measures loosening abortion restrictions, or the theft of tax payer’s money, or whatever they lied about to attain office. They didn’t even fight for these things very hard when they had the majority, they certainly aren’t going to risk their remaining perks and privileges to do so now. All the rhetoric coming from the right about “bipartisanship” is merely a cover for their intention to go along so they don’t lose what they have. hard-working patriotic Americans, particularly if they are Christian, white, heterosexual or male, are screwed. The best we can do is make sure we’re armed and learn to live without contributing to the economy. Barter systems would be good to, learning to deal with as little cash as possible.
Not one of these wretched people in DC can be trusted. The dems are sneaky and will get the “pork” to their favorite folks and the republicans will sit back and try to convince us they couldn’t stop it. Newt is on Glenn Beck’s show now talking about a new “muckraker” movement. Sounds good to me. Something has to be done as just after a week of the big “O” administration and his cohorts in Congress, this country won’t be worth fighting for.
If that happns its all over with. Elections will be just a formality just like the elections in the Soviet Union or North Korea etc. We will be just another totalatarian state.
If that happns its all over with. Elections will be just a formality just like the elections in the Soviet Union or North Korea etc. We will be just another totalitarian state.
Sorry about the double post, had to correct spelling.
Exactly. ACORN and Democrat SoS = Permanent Democratic rule.
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