I shouldn’t be shocked but this is just over the top. FOX News reports that the Democrat backed $825 billion stimulus package has verbiage in it that would make non-profit organizations like ACORN eligible for funding from the stimulus funds.
Some one please explain to me how this helps our economy.
Republican leaders need to shout this to the rafters and not let them get away with this. In case you don’t remember ACORN is the non-profit organization currently under investigation for voter registration fraud in numerous states. Leaders of ACORN openly campaigned for Obama during the ‘08 Presidential Election, encouraging people to register as Democrats and to vote for Obama. It is my belief that one day the allegations will be proven. Thousands of ballots from fraudulent voters were counted in this election. I believe this to be true, the Republicans have too much class to wine about it after the fact unlike Al Gore and hundreds of liberal Floridians who are probably STILL counting votes from the 2000 election.
The very idea of an Economic Stimulus package that funnels funding to a non-profit of any sort is in itself an oxymoron.
The bill as it stands, according to House Republican leader John Boehner, dishes out $4.19 billion to “neighborhood stabilization activities.” The money was previously only available to State and local governments but now Democrats want part of the money to available to non-profit entities.
The way I see it, President Obama and Democrat lawmakers are attempting to funnel money to their liberal lobbyist friends in Washington. Sen.David Vitter (R-La.) called it a pay-off for their political activities in the last election. Vitter also said that this was just one of many frivilous spending items in the bill and that it was not a job creation bill but a long list of big spending items.
Of course none of this should be a surprise, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have a long history, (if you want to call the less than 2 years that Obama spent in the Senate before running for President long), of Pork Barrel Spending.
The greatest irritation in this is that Obamas’ campaign was all about change. I see no change, I see the same people in office that were here during the Clinton Administration; I see the same Pork Barrel Spending; I see the bended knee to the lobbyists and special interest groups like ACORN; and I see politics as usual.
Federal Funding for ACORN is one big slap in the face to American taxpayers and I ask all of you to contact your Congressmen and Senators and urge them to vote this bill right straight into the trash can. Tell them our government shouldn’t be funding this abomination of free elections. Tell them that you wont stand for it. Tell them they will be unemployed if they allow such misappropriations of your money to take place.
Tell them! Tell them! Tell Them NO FUNDING FOR ACORN!
Its a Cracked World we live in!
