According to judicialwatch.org, the Obama Administration has issued a $79,819 grant to an ACORN offshoot Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA). This action now becomes a violation of the ACORN Funding Ban H.R.3288 also known as “Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, of 2010″. According to Sec. 511.”None of the funds made available in this division or any other division in this Act may be distributed to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries“. Read Full Report at judicialwatch.org (click image to open in new tab/window)

During the 2008 Presidential race, candidate Obama proposed a $50 billion ‘Emergency Economic Plan‘. This plan included issuing rebate payments of $1000 to assist with rising energy costs, extending unemployment benefits, and distributing additional funds to the states. It was planned to be funded from the excess profits of big oil companies, which the Obama campaign also touted would provide an economic stimulus to the economy. In the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, it was revealed $77,051 had been donated to Obama campaigns by BP. In hindsight, the $50 billion ‘Stimulus Jr’ plan funded by big oil, was either the typical antics of a ‘Community Organizer’, or the perfect shakedown from Obama for campaign donations.

Obama was renown during the 2008 campaign for conducted immense finger pointing over the economy, and most especially towards it’s perceived architects. So it came as no surprise very early on for the Obama Administration to use TARP recipient AIG, and their bank bonuses as the target to stir public indignation towards the bank bail-outs.

“I’m going to start out just by talking about these AIG bonuses you’ve been hearing about.

Now, I know a lot of you are outraged about this — rightfully so. I’m outraged, too. It’s hard to understand that a company that’s relying on extraordinary assistance from taxpayers to keep its doors open would be paying anybody lavish bonuses. It goes against our most basic sense of what’s fair and what’s right. It offends our values.

But these bonuses, outrageous as they are, are a symptom of a much larger problem. And that’s the system and culture that made them possible, a culture where people made enormous sums of money, taking irresponsible risks that have now put the entire economy at risk. So we’re going to do everything we can to deal with these specific bonuses”.

– President Obama – Costa Mesa Town Hall meeting – March 18, 2009 -

The Class War Rhetoric stunt would later backfire on Obama.  It was later revealed the language used in the TARP bill was drafted by Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd, to include and honor existing contracts for bonuses for TARP recipients fully prompted by the Treasury Department.  After which, Obama backed down on the Class War maneuver towards AIG, and in his own words would “take responsibility” for AIG bonuses.   The AIG attack was sanction enough for ‘Rhetoric Swallowers’ ACORN, to protest outside the Connecticut residential homes of AIG executives.  One of the more ‘Inconvenient Factors’ of the 2008 TARP bill, were the ‘Yes votes’ coming from then Senators Clinton, Biden, and Obama, something a complaisant media allowed to pass by unnoticed at the height of the AIG incident.

“To kick these problems (the economy) down the road for another four years or eight years, that would be to continue the same irresponsibility that led us to this point in the first place. And I did not run for President to pass on our problems to the next generation. I ran for President to solve these problems for the next generation and for the next President”.

- President Obama – Los Angeles town hall meeting - March 19, 2009 -

To some degree, the previous quote of Obama’s self-analysis from 2009 over his handling of the economy, is becoming extremely prophetic. At each step of the way towards 2012, Obama has merely given passing acknowledgment towards economic issues, rather than addressing them.  When the going gets too tough for Obama, frequent Class War Rhetoric is never too far away, and the it’s same tactic Obama continues to use during the Debt Ceiling discussions with Congressional Republicans.

Class War Rhetoric is a non-solution answer in dealing with problems, and also to imply it’s merit outweighs the practicality of adhering to economics.  That would relegate Obama as ineligible in with dealing, or comprehending any economic negotiations.   The current economic outlook for Obama, will be his kicking of the problem to the next President to fix. At that point, it will become another practical example that using Class War Rhetoric, is an ineffective manner to combat issues with.

Craig Edwards

If the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn) had any decency at all, it would pull the plug on itself and shut down.

Its long, tawdry history is filled with corruption scandals — everything from Acorn’s community organizers helping criminals to participating in voter fraud and internal embezzlement schemes.

The final straw came last fall when two student journalists, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, filmed Acorn employees giving them help to set up a brothel full of underage girls, offering tips on smuggling illegal immigrants and evading taxes.

Published by Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com last fall, the expose sent a decisive signal that Acorn is steeped in a culture of corruption from top to bottom. In the wake of it, Congress passed a law to ban their access to more federal cash.

But instead of doing the decent thing and truly dismantling, Acorn is now declaring itself disbanded but in fact regrouping, with new names and the same faces.

Groups like New York Communities for Change, New England United for Justice, and Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment are suddenly popping up with leases to Acorn buildings and assets. They claim they’re new and independent, but they’re using the same personnel and tactics.

A visit to the Facebook pages of these groups shows their member rolls loaded with senior Acorn staff. Allied organizations, like the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, and various left-wing lawyers and politicians also are represented. One man on the New York site proudly lists his past job as Acorn organizer and his new job as “census outreach” coordinator.

It’s not just that Acorn’s denizens are hardy as cockroaches. There’s still $4 billion at stake in federal government funding for “neighborhood stabilization activities” out there. By changing its name, the former Acorn can continue its business as usual without the legal sanctions.

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The ACORN Association Board met on Sunday March 21 and approved a set of steps to responsibly manage the process of bringing its operations to a close over the coming months. These include:

* Closing ACORN’s remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1st; and
* Developing a plan to resolve all outstanding debts, obligations and other issues.

ACORN’s members have a great deal to be proud of–from promoting to homeownership to helping rebuild New Orleans, from raising wages to winning safer streets, from training community leaders to promoting voter participation—ACORN members have worked hard to create stronger to communities, a more inclusive democracy, and a more just nation.

ACORN was always a very decentralized group, with a great deal of its activity and power concentrated in local chapters from New York to Arkansas — the strongest of which will survive. The collapse of the national group, though, reflects the impact of a conservative assault that never prompted any prosecutions.

Read more at Politico

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