Posted on 06/12/2009 8:57:23 AM PDT by icwhatudo
President Obama is hoping you won’t notice his abrupt change of inspectors general over at Americorps, the government-run, taxpayer-subsidized “community service” boondoggle (which Republicans helped expand as part of the $6 billion GIVE/SERVE Act in March despite its wasteful track record. Thanks, Republicans).
With intervention from Michelle Obama, the Americorps inspector general was given the boot and replaced — for doing his job too well, it seems, and uncovering squandering of funds by favored contributors, educational institutions, and left-wing groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Lead story on tonight’s Nightly News with Brian Williams...
Democrats can’t win without cheating someone.
“…Funding for the largest AmeriCorps program - the Teaching Fellows Program, run by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York - is in abeyance pending resolution of widespread problems identified in a recent audit. Although Walpin recommended that funding be curtailed and that previous funds (perhaps as much as $75 million) be repaid to the corporation, the corporation has said it will take no action on that matter.
Walpin concluded that nothing was being gained by the grants to CUNY and that the money was simply being used to subsidize an existing and funded program.”
Bingo...no wonder he was fired. see aslo...Anita Moncrief and Karyn Gillette...
I’ve worked with Americorps. People you cannot imagine the waste and corruption.
How sad. We have Urkel and Bigfoot “Winnie Mandela” obama running the country ACORN style. oink.
People you cannot imagine the waste and corruption.
Some of us can. Unfortunately, the braindead Obamination voters do not.
bttt
Unbelievable...no wait...it really isn’t because these pigs in the White House have an agenda that does not fit most Americans well being. Absolute pigs!
I am shocked and dismayed.
Most of them see themselves as beneficiaries of this type of corruption. It’s an entirely different mindset.
This is actually relatively big news here in the CA capitol - the Sac mayor’s charter school was being investigated. Ironically, it seems that complaints from the former mayor’s camp (a huge lefty) were behind the investigation. Conventional wisdom around here is that she used her political connections to try to cut him off at the knees before he could mount a challenge.
In looking at the IG corruption issues we must also be open to the possibility that there may be a good many of the investigations that were politically motivated. There may be no ‘good guys’ in this whole mess.
A quick google search of ACORN and AMERICORPS reveals the following articles (I know nothing about the sources):
http://defenseoftherepublic.com/acorn-americorps-another-love-fest.html/
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=1390781
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=7038390 (note, this is from 1995!!)
http://www.openmarket.org/2008/06/16/an-untrustworthy-housing-fund-housing-bill-has-likely-acorn-slush-fund/ (this one takes a while to get to Americorps but may be the most important of them all)
Another example of the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law. Welcome to the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. We are now officially a third-world country. The culture of complacency is now in place. It’s just a matter of time before we lose our wealth. And just where the h**l are the republicans?
Contact Michelle (Malkin, not Obama!) and tell her what you know.
I can.
The entire structure of the Americorps is riddled with slackers, street thugs too unambitious to get out on the streets and hustle, proselytizers recruiting for “new ways” to stick it to The Man, and even phantoms who never existed, but SOMEBODY is signing the time sheets. And eligibility to enter the program is strictly watched, so nobody who is of the “wrong persuasion” ever gets in, or if they do,they are “re-educated”.
Like a 1960’s college campus, but both more crude and more rude.
bump for later.
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