Holy Moly Acorn!

[Anonymous]

I am as ready as the next person to discount Glenn Beck--flip it on what, twice a year when I'm looking for a snicker. But this is just one of those great, awful undercover reporting stories that makes me cringe and laugh. I mean, seriously???


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549001,00.html

[Anonymous]

And I'm sure the brainless will use this opportunity to indict an an entire political party, or an entire political philosophy, or a president based on the actions of a couple of people.

[Anonymous]

Before jumping to that conclusion, do you feel any shock with the actual two women involved?

[Anonymous]

Shocked? Really?

A little girl being kidnapped at age 11 and held as a prisoner and baby farm for a rapist for 18 years under a tent: that shocks me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And I'm sure the brainless will use this opportunity to indict an an entire political party, or an entire political philosophy, or a president based on the actions of a couple of people.

Sort of how Democrats try to lump all Republicans as Gun Toting-Christian Fanatics-Obama haters?

Thought so.

[Anonymous]

Lots of pretty liberal groups lock horns with Acorn. They aren't well liked by lefties. I had my own run-ins with them when I was organizing 20 years ago. I'm not sure why anyone has to take responsibility for Acorn except for Acorn.

[Anonymous]

Who said they should? But ACORN needs to go down. Sorry--supposedly two more at the DC Office today. If a girl being held on a farm shocks you, but approval for setting up a brothel from teen girls from El Salvador doesn't?

Values check needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who said they should? But ACORN needs to go down. Sorry--supposedly two more at the DC Office today. If a girl being held on a farm shocks you, but approval for setting up a brothel from teen girls from El Salvador doesn't?

Values check needed.

Agreed. I hate ACORN. My point was that the press acts like liberal groups and the Democrats like them. It is not true. They support Democrats, but they are a pain in the ass to everyone.

[Anonymous]

I am VERY GLAD to hear you are discerning. The only issue is, the Democratic party accepts ACORN support and supports them right back--hence, some complicity there.

[Anonymous]

As a first time home buyer I was the receipient of an ACORN loan via BOA. So, to the individuals on this board who seem to be so high and mighty, I am a defender of the ACORN program. It's seems as though you want to dump the baby out with the bath water. Perhaps, in your world(s) you don't require assistance, but millions of other Americans do. The entire U.S. is not made up of DC money elites. Heck, DC and its surrounding communities are not dominated by the money elites. It just seems that DCUM draws a large portion of those that are in the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am VERY GLAD to hear you are discerning. The only issue is, the Democratic party accepts ACORN support and supports them right back--hence, some complicity there.

Even John McCain has shown up at ACORN events. He was drumming up support for immigration reform. The problem is politicians are not discerning, Republican or Democrat. They deal with groups they don't like. They also all take oil money, wall street money, money from lawyers groups, ...

[Anonymous]

So I understand in addition to Baltimore, DC, and Brooklyn, there is yet another undercover video of ACORN staff somewhere in America helping this "couple" secure a govt. backed mortgage to open a brothel with under-aged Salvadoran sex slaves AKA prostitutes to be claimed as dependents on a tax return?

This is not just one or two bad apples, now, is it?

[Anonymous]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/senate-says-no-funding-for-acorn/?hp

September 14, 2009, 9:27 pm New York Times
Senate Votes to Bar Funding for Acorn
By Bernie Becker

The Senate voted on Monday to forbid Acorn, the antipoverty group frequently criticized by conservatives, from receiving federal housing grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development...

This had to happen, and the vote was overwhelming, but even more interesting are the 7 who voted to keep the funding... Senators from states with huge urban populations such as New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois (along with the predictable Bernie Sanders )

[Anonymous]

I find it interesting how PPs aren't indicting ACORN as much as
1) trying to compare its actions to those of other groups;
2) bringing politics into it.

Either ACORN's action are reprehensible, or they are not. I think they are. When you act illegally and help others to act illegally you should not get government funding.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote: When you act illegally and help others to act illegally you should not get government funding.

Damn straight! No more tax dollars to Blackwater and Halliburton.

Blackwater employees have pleaded guilty to crimes:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/FedCrimes/story?id=6589409&page=1

Haliburton employees have pleaded guilty to crimes:

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15168

But, they still get government contracts. I am not aware of ACORN being found guilty of any crimes related to government contracts.