By Michelle Malkin • January 30, 2009 09:05 AM
From tiny acorns, mighty government debacles grow. House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. But the Republican leadership has only scratched the surface over what amounts to a bottomless slush fund for a bigger coalition of housing entitlement thugs. ACORN, you may recall, is the Chicago-based left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Obama. The non-profit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying, and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats’ stimulus proposals could make the group — and its lesser-known, even more radical ideological allies — eligible for upwards of $5 billion in new public cash.
Talk about subsidizing failure. These are the same activists that helped sow the seeds of the subprime meltdown. They aggressively played the race card and pressured banks to loosen standards, throw out down payments, and lend to some of the nation’s most riskiest borrowers. Now, these mobs protest across the country, disrupt foreclosure auctions, threaten bank executives, and accuse lenders of, yep, racism for lending to those riskiest of borrowers.
Filed under: Conservative Issues, Obamaworld, Politics, Stimulus package | Tagged: Acorn, Barack Obama, Stimulus package
