What's all this buzz about ACORN lately?
For those of you who have heard of ACORN, but are not familiar with the broader social context of the organization, this is for you. ACORN (the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) is a "grassroots" non-profit organization, formed to advocate for low and moderate-income families by working on social issues such as neighborhood safety, healthcare, and voter registration among other things. ACORN was heavily involved with Barack Obama's campaign for President in 2008, and was later investigated for voter registration fraud when they were found to be registering individuals multiple times, registering deceased Americans, as well as making up fictitious names completely, to vote Democrat in the '08 election. More recently, ACORN has been investigated for tax fraud, embezzlement, management fights, and fraudulent behavior of its employees in several branch offices across the country. This past week, a new controversy involving the promotion of underage sex trafficking and prostitution, led the United States Census Bureau (which is responsible for keeping count on the US population) to terminate it's partnership with ACORN saying, "Unfortunately, we no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices. For the reasons stated, we therefore have decided to terminate the partnership."
ACORN operates under the guise of aiding the needy, but in reality they exploit the very people they pretend to assist. ACORN rallies up the uneducated, poor, and vulnerable Americans, and in the case of the voter fraud specifically, employs these individuals for slightly more than minimum wage. This income is more than these people would be able to earn otherwise, so they have an incentive to stay employed by ACORN and meet the requirement to keep that employment. Herein lies the rub; as an ACORN employee, you are required to register a specific number of voters as well as registering new members to join ACORN, in order to meet the necessary quota to keep your job. In this way, when effectively operating on a massive scale, the organization and those behind it can create a social movement to reflect the political interests of the organization, which are decidedly ultra-left.
Liberals are big fans of saying Republicans only care about the wealthy, and need to create polices that keep the rich wealthy in order to stay in power. Well, if that's true, then conversely, liberals only care about the poor, and need to KEEP THE POOR POOR in order to stay in power. That is why liberal policy seemingly aids the less fortunate, but in reality, those leftist policies never get the needy out of their lower socio-economic strata. ACORN capitalizes on this.
ACORN gets 40% of its revenues from American taxpayers, and has spent nearly four decades funding political campaigns and agendas of those that promote the welfare state, and undermine capitalism and individual responsibility. Our President worked for ACORN as a "leadership trainer," in the early days of his political career in Chicago, but his current affection and support for the organization is no secret. In a speech to ACORN community organizers, before his inauguration, The President promised ACORN they would help shape the agenda of his Administration. Watch his speech to ACORN community organizers here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMQ20wNhB_M
Scared, yet? You should be.
This week, two ACORN offices, one in D.C. and one in Baltimore were caught with an undercover camera helping a pair of journalists posing as a pimp and prostitute subvert the law. The video from Washington shows an ACORN "tax specialist" offering to help the 'pimp and prostitute' acquire illegal home loans to set up a brothel. The tax specialist tells the 'prostitute,' to lie on her tax form and say she is a 'performing artist,' when she files her taxes so she will qualify for aid. Very ethical. Both of the associates on the video were fired on Thursday, after the video surfaced. But not 24 hours later, two more ACORN employees were fired from a Baltimore office when the undercover journalists videotaped the ACORN workers showing the supposed pimp and prostitute how to falsify tax forms. ACORN workers were also very helpful in aiding the pimp and prostitute to seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador. The pair said they wanted to import them to work as child prostitutes.
Watch the undercover videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWRTYD26Kxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9MCk6GvQO4
When stories like this started popping up, I heard the refrain, "It's just a few bad apples, it doesn't reflect the agenda of the entire organization." (Funny, that isn't the mentality when the topic is controversy over 1% of priests being charged with pedifilia in the Catholic Church.) However, as days and weeks pass, the corruption of more and more ACORN offices across the nation is exposed and America is seeing ACORN for what it really is.
We have an organization that is not only encouraging tax fraud, but is perpetuating the sex trade by giving free housing for the purpose of establishing a brothel, with the hard earned dollars of Americans who get up everyday and work hard to make a legitimate living. This is where our tax money is going, to the destruction of young women's lives and the perpetuation of illicit, illegal, and fraudulent behavior. Needless to say, it makes me question the integrity of our President, that he stands behind an organization that is capable of this type of immorality. Although he, of course, does not support the controversial behavior of these specific employees, he's been in bed with ACORN since the beginning of his career as a community organizer. This organization is corrupt from the ground up, and with the staggering amount of tax dollars at their disposal, Americans literally cannot afford to let this organization continue.
For those of you who have heard of ACORN, but are not familiar with the broader social context of the organization, this is for you. ACORN (the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) is a "grassroots" non-profit organization, formed to advocate for low and moderate-income families by working on social issues such as neighborhood safety, healthcare, and voter registration among other things. ACORN was heavily involved with Barack Obama's campaign for President in 2008, and was later investigated for voter registration fraud when they were found to be registering individuals multiple times, registering deceased Americans, as well as making up fictitious names completely, to vote Democrat in the '08 election. More recently, ACORN has been investigated for tax fraud, embezzlement, management fights, and fraudulent behavior of its employees in several branch offices across the country. This past week, a new controversy involving the promotion of underage sex trafficking and prostitution, led the United States Census Bureau (which is responsible for keeping count on the US population) to terminate it's partnership with ACORN saying, "Unfortunately, we no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices. For the reasons stated, we therefore have decided to terminate the partnership."
ACORN operates under the guise of aiding the needy, but in reality they exploit the very people they pretend to assist. ACORN rallies up the uneducated, poor, and vulnerable Americans, and in the case of the voter fraud specifically, employs these individuals for slightly more than minimum wage. This income is more than these people would be able to earn otherwise, so they have an incentive to stay employed by ACORN and meet the requirement to keep that employment. Herein lies the rub; as an ACORN employee, you are required to register a specific number of voters as well as registering new members to join ACORN, in order to meet the necessary quota to keep your job. In this way, when effectively operating on a massive scale, the organization and those behind it can create a social movement to reflect the political interests of the organization, which are decidedly ultra-left.
Liberals are big fans of saying Republicans only care about the wealthy, and need to create polices that keep the rich wealthy in order to stay in power. Well, if that's true, then conversely, liberals only care about the poor, and need to KEEP THE POOR POOR in order to stay in power. That is why liberal policy seemingly aids the less fortunate, but in reality, those leftist policies never get the needy out of their lower socio-economic strata. ACORN capitalizes on this.
ACORN gets 40% of its revenues from American taxpayers, and has spent nearly four decades funding political campaigns and agendas of those that promote the welfare state, and undermine capitalism and individual responsibility. Our President worked for ACORN as a "leadership trainer," in the early days of his political career in Chicago, but his current affection and support for the organization is no secret. In a speech to ACORN community organizers, before his inauguration, The President promised ACORN they would help shape the agenda of his Administration. Watch his speech to ACORN community organizers here: http://www.youtube.com/wat
Scared, yet? You should be.
This week, two ACORN offices, one in D.C. and one in Baltimore were caught with an undercover camera helping a pair of journalists posing as a pimp and prostitute subvert the law. The video from Washington shows an ACORN "tax specialist" offering to help the 'pimp and prostitute' acquire illegal home loans to set up a brothel. The tax specialist tells the 'prostitute,' to lie on her tax form and say she is a 'performing artist,' when she files her taxes so she will qualify for aid. Very ethical. Both of the associates on the video were fired on Thursday, after the video surfaced. But not 24 hours later, two more ACORN employees were fired from a Baltimore office when the undercover journalists videotaped the ACORN workers showing the supposed pimp and prostitute how to falsify tax forms. ACORN workers were also very helpful in aiding the pimp and prostitute to seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador. The pair said they wanted to import them to work as child prostitutes.
Watch the undercover videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/wat
http://www.youtube.com/wat
When stories like this started popping up, I heard the refrain, "It's just a few bad apples, it doesn't reflect the agenda of the entire organization." (Funny, that isn't the mentality when the topic is controversy over 1% of priests being charged with pedifilia in the Catholic Church.) However, as days and weeks pass, the corruption of more and more ACORN offices across the nation is exposed and America is seeing ACORN for what it really is.
We have an organization that is not only encouraging tax fraud, but is perpetuating the sex trade by giving free housing for the purpose of establishing a brothel, with the hard earned dollars of Americans who get up everyday and work hard to make a legitimate living. This is where our tax money is going, to the destruction of young women's lives and the perpetuation of illicit, illegal, and fraudulent behavior. Needless to say, it makes me question the integrity of our President, that he stands behind an organization that is capable of this type of immorality. Although he, of course, does not support the controversial behavior of these specific employees, he's been in bed with ACORN since the beginning of his career as a community organizer. This organization is corrupt from the ground up, and with the staggering amount of tax dollars at their disposal, Americans literally cannot afford to let this organization continue.
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