Remember, not only are we giving taxpayer dollars to this collection of trash, but these are the same people who are supposed to "help" with the census.
Everyone has been covering and talking about the president's big health care speech and about the usual political games being played in the Beltway on healthcare reform.
"Will the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi be able to get the votes?"
"Did you see the Republican who was really rude during the speech?"
I'm not wasting one second debating the things politicians want me to debate. I'm not playing their game, because we are being lied to. And it doesn't take a genius to see that. All you have to do is look at their own words — like Obama Wednesday night saying there are about 30 million uninsured Americans. Wait, wasn't it something different about a month ago?
rest of story and video
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/30338/ (http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/30338/)
And the two ACORN workers were fired.
Quote from: Mom70x7 on September 11, 2009, 07:00:01 AM
And the two ACORN workers were fired.
two down and a whole corrupt organization to go
I'd have to go back and read it again, but our paper here just had an article about ACORN just firing some workers for voter fraud.
I'll hunt that up, thanks.
Lets see...tax fraud, tax evasion, prostitution, human trafficing, tell me again why congress won't launch an investigation into this group? I mean, it is okay to go after the CIA and give speeches about how the U.S. doesn't torture, but has anyone heard obama or his clowns utter evn a single word on this?
Good morning, Pam. Yeah, I just read that also. I saw a reference to it in the Washington paper, and the Capitol Hill paper, and the Arizona Republic. I was not aware that this group was this big and not aware that the government (read us) was giving out so much money to them. I think they have become too big for their britches so to speak. It is interesting to read the comments by the readers of these papers, too.
Larryj
Quote from: Varmit on September 12, 2009, 07:11:22 AM
Lets see...tax fraud, tax evasion, prostitution, human trafficing, tell me again why congress won't launch an investigation into this group? I mean, it is okay to go after the CIA and give speeches about how the U.S. doesn't torture, but has anyone heard obama or his clowns utter evn a single word on this?
Because they assisted obama in getting elected. Gee who would have thunk. Looks like the mafia is second place to Acorn.
Mornin Larry :) I had to go to town real quick so missed this :)
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOL9Jh61S8
P'HO's community organizers at work... along with your "stimulus" dollars :) By the way..... little kids in the background.... offices( if you can call them that) run down.. 2 women ..one with her body parts hanging out..the other in a professional tee shirt ::) claiming to be "tax specialists?? Come on............. where is all that stimulus money going? And would YOU walk in there and want tax advice from these stupid women?
Yeah.. They were fired... but that whole system and everyone associated with it should be shut down.. boarded up ..and anyone (including Obama himself ) should be put on rail cars and sent off to some rock prisons..
Dirty lying scumbags!!
At least 11 more were fired and/or charged in Florida too. They are cleaning house.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 12, 2009, 10:50:16 AM
At least 11 more were fired and/or charged in Florida too. They are cleaning house.
Not going to do any good unless they get to the corp offices of Acorn. Need to throw them in a prison along with their lawyers.
Obama gave them $800,000 of his campaign dollars in the beginning and so far, ACORN has received over $54 M of our tax dollars and is was in line to receive another $8 B. Chicago politics at work.... right, Rahm!
Just five days before last November's elections, this was the lead editorial from the Wall Street Journal:
So, less than a week before the midterm elections, four workers from Acorn, the liberal activist group that has registered millions of voters, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board.... We wish this were an aberration, but allegations of fraud have tainted Acorn voter drives across the country. Acorn workers have been convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado, and investigations are still under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
The good news for anyone who cares about voter integrity is that the Justice Department finally seems poised to connect these dots instead of dismissing such revelations as the work of a few yahoos. After the federal indictments were handed up in Kansas City this week, the U.S. Attorney's office said in a statement that "This national investigation is very much ongoing."
It sounded like a serious voter-fraud crisis. After all, the Justice Department has a long-standing policy of avoiding election law prosecutions immediately before voters head to the polls, so for these indictments to come down with less than a week before the midterms, there had to be some serious wrongdoing. And if so, it made some sense for the right-wing WSJ editorial page to gloat about it.
What we didn't know at the time, however, was the truth. Bradley Schlozman — the former U.S. Attorney for Kansas City and controversial deputy head at the Civil Rights Division — appears to have rushed these ACORN indictments for maximum political benefit.
In my paper today----------
SENATE VOTES TO DENY FUNDS TO ACORN.
By Andrew Taylor
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
The Senate's move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.
Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.
Larryj
Good! At least the money isn't going to go to these thieves and crooks pockets! This is a prime example of people voting largess into their own pockets that our forefathers warned us about.
You know imagine, 50+ million dollars to lets say spend on some fixemup homes. I know we probably have a ton of houses here that could be fixed up for around 10 grand or so. Imagine getting a grant from that wasted money and being able to pickup that property with an abandoned home and fixing it up. shoot might actually put some folks in a home that would work as in sweat equity for their home.
Quote from: larryJ on September 15, 2009, 09:20:00 AM
In my paper today----------
SENATE VOTES TO DENY FUNDS TO ACORN.
By Andrew Taylor
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
The Senate's move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.
Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.
Larryj
SRK,
Aint noth'n gonna change. ACORN will close up shop and open under a new name with the same crooks at the helm. Their new name might be "Brazil Nuts" but that might not be PC. You can bet your arse "they's is still gonna get the money"
Quote from: jarhead on September 15, 2009, 10:30:40 AM
SRK,
Aint noth'n gonna change. ACORN will close up shop and open under a new name with the same crooks at the helm. Their new name might be "Brazil Nuts" but that might not be PC. You can bet your arse "they's is still gonna get the money"
Right now i am so sick of it all. Simple solution, cut the whole damn bunch with their hands out off. Start here and go world wide, and if they want money then we should tell em ok, whats in it for us!
I have three sons in the military, 2 marines and 1 army and its just sad and pitiful that they serve for a bunch of no account slimeballs running things. I shudder to think what this administration requests them to do!
Now that's sad. I thought they served for us all. When I send stuff for the packages that get shipped to our military over there, I don't care who the President is.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 15, 2009, 07:10:28 PM
Now that's sad. I thought they served for us all. When I send stuff for the packages that get shipped to our military over there, I don't care who the President is.
They do serve for us, but what the administration is requiring them to do, thats another story. Two have left the military, and my oldest is up on his 8 year obligation and he said he's tired of the crap he has been getting since the first of the year. Enough is enough.
I'm not sure about whats going on in the military, but it's interesting to see Beck finally making himself useful. I didn't know much about Acorn and i still don't but i don't like what i saw in the vid. Without going into too much detail, i'll say that this sort of thing is probably more common than we think, as i've seen similar situations in local non-profits here in california. When Bush said he was going to fund NGO's to help the government do it's work, I supported him, but like many good ideas, there is a flip side.
Also....
Just because Beck finally did something relevant doesn't make him any better, he's still an idiot, just maybe a useful idiot from time to time. :P
Quote from: Anmar on September 17, 2009, 11:08:44 PM
I'm not sure about whats going on in the military, but it's interesting to see Beck finally making himself useful. I didn't know much about Acorn and i still don't but i don't like what i saw in the vid. Without going into too much detail, i'll say that this sort of thing is probably more common than we think, as i've seen similar situations in local non-profits here in california. When Bush said he was going to fund NGO's to help the government do it's work, I supported him, but like many good ideas, there is a flip side.
well Acorn wasn't one of the NGO's that President Bush was pushing for funding. Acorn has been around much longer. If i remember right it was one that was created around the time of carter admin.
The problem with acorn is they have been around far too long without any kind of accountability.
We should have shut them down long ago when the first charges of voter fraud surfaced.
In the paper today, from the AP----The IRS had ended ties to ACORN tax assistance program.
Somebody hung a census worker in Kentucky and wrote "fed" on his chest.
And my favorite-----sarcasm here.
by Matthew Daly----Associated Press
WILDFIRE FUNDING USED FOR D.C. WORK
WASHINGTON------Nearly $3 million in stimulus funds targeted for fighting wildfires is being spent to restore public parks and watersheds in the nation's capitol, which has no national forests.
The Forest Service has directed that $2.8 million in "Wildland Fire Management" funds, approved under the economic stimulus law, go to groups that will create "green jobs" in the District of Columbia. The projects are intended to restore public parks and watersheds in the city and highlight the value of urban parks, including a park 2 miles north of the White House that once was plagued by crime.
The spending angered a group of Western lawmakers, who noted that the District of Columbia has no national forests and that forests throughout the West continue to burn. A huge wildfire in Southern California blackened nearly 250 square miles of the Angeles National Forest and resulted in the deaths of two firefighters.
"The last major fire in D.C. was likely lit by the British in 1814." said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who is leading Western lawmakers' effort to strip the city of the money. "There are many wasteful and wild schemes born in Washington, but this takes the cake."
Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, called it unreasonable that federal firefighting money is going to areas where there are no forest fires.
A spokesman for the Agriculture Department, which oversees the Forest Service, said the lawmakers' anger is misplaced. While the stimulus law targets "Wildland Fire Management," the term encompasses a broad range of activities, it said, including forest health protection and rehabilitation and activities on state and private lands, said spokesman Caleb Weaver.
(reprinted from the SGV Tribune)
Larryj
It's a dirty shame what happened to that census worker. Heard on the radio that he was a teacher and some kind of director for the local boy scouts.
The article I read states that he was a part-time Census field worker and teacher. I suspect there may be more to this story. My speculations are that the locals just didn't really know what kind of "fed" he was, or that, he stumbled across somebody's still. Anyway, I think there is more to this than the original story. We will have to wait and see.
Larryj
Quote from: larryJ on September 24, 2009, 10:21:29 AM
The article I read states that he was a part-time Census field worker and teacher. I suspect there may be more to this story. My speculations are that the locals just didn't really know what kind of "fed" he was, or that, he stumbled across somebody's still. Anyway, I think there is more to this than the original story. We will have to wait and see.
Larryj
Well being my family is from that area, hills of kentucky, chances are folks thought he was a revenuer and reveneuers don't live long around those parts.
From AP in my paper today---------------------
WASHINGTON-----The embattled community activist group ACORN appears to be collecting charitable contributions through affiliate organizations that it then uses for impermissible lobbying and political activity, says the Republican staff of the Senate Finance Committee.
The assessment, in a memo to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, farther fuels the controversy surrounding ACORN, formally known as the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now.
The GOP staff memo says ACORN-affiliated charities are being used to raise money which is then funneled to other charities or other organizations for purposes other than what a donor may have intended.
ACORN, the parent entity, is not tax-exempt, but dozens of ACORN affiliates around the country are tax-exempt.
On Thursday, Grassley asked Internal Revenue Service commissioner Douglas Shulman to explain how the agency audits organizations like ACORN "where the movement of money appears to be a shell game."
"Do IRS audit procedures require auditors to follow the money trail to or from a charitable organization to determine whether that money is being used for impermissible activities, including electioneering and promoting illegal acts?" asked Grassley.
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I think Varmint is right in the opening of this thread that this group has become to big for its britches, and, who is directly responsible for all these decisions?
Larryj
Obama's Top Aide Patrick Gaspard Tied To ACORN
Sept. 28, 2009 - NewsMax
Patrick Gaspard, considered one of the most powerful figures in the Obama White House, is a "longtime ACORN operative" and former union official, according to a report posted Monday on the American Spectator's online blog.
Gaspard's name recently surfaced as the official President Obama dispatched to urge beleaguered New York Gov. David Paterson not to run for another term. Paterson insists he'll continue to run for governor even without Obama's support.
Gaspard has extensive ties to organized labor and community-organizing groups. One measure of his influence in the White House: He holds the same "political affairs director" title that belonged to Karl Rove during the Bush administration.
The Spectator's Matthew Vadum, a senior editor at the Capital Research Center think tank, reported that Gaspard was the New York political director for top ACORN official Bertha Lewis before 2003. Lewis is the CEO and "chief organizer" for ACORN, which is the subject of more than a dozen investigations for vote-registration fraud nationwide.
The House and Senate recently moved to cut off ACORN funding after a series of videos revealed the willingness of its staff to help establish a reputed child-prostitution ring based in San Salvador.
Obama refused to support ending federal funding for ACORN, however, telling ABC: "It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to."
Rest of story: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_acorn_gaspard/2009/09/28/265678.html?s=al&promo_code=8AAE-1
AP) – Authorities are saying a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest committed suicide and staged his death to look like a homicide. According to Kentucky police, 51-year-old Bill Sparkman died where he was found, bound, gagged and with an ID badge taped to his neck in the woods of southeastern Kentucky.
Sparkman was a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy. He had recently taken out two life insurance policies, neither of which covered suicide. Sparkman's son might also have been eligible for a $10,000 death gratuity for census workers killed on the job. Investigators say he acted alone in manipulating the scene to conceal the suicide.
Read more: http://www.newser.com/story/74748/police-rule-census-worker-hanging-a-suicide.html#ixzz0u3oC8OOS