Barney Frank is Sorry for Voting to Take Funding Away from Indicted ACORN, Appeals for An Amendment
By Christine Emmick
Recently the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee passed unanimously an amendment that would make it illegal for indicted organizations to receive public funds. This makes perfect sense that if an organization is in legal trouble, they shouldn't receive our money.
But ACORN is in legal trouble these days. Seems they may have bought some fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and Pennsylvania. This created a dilemma for Mr. Barney Frank. He voted for this legislation that would eliminate funds for the Democrat loved ACORN.
"I did not read it carefully, and it was in the last minute that the amendment was accepted," he said. Sounds more like a plead for mercy for a horrible mistake. Somehow I think Barney the purple dinosaur could have done better.
Oh, but don't worry, He's proposing an amendment to put 8.5 billion of taxpayer dollars back in the hands of his ACORN buddies. So with or without the fraud allegation his friends can still get their funds to lobby congress.
And what will they do with those funds? if history is an indicator, ACORN will force congress to enact policies that will bankrupt American companies and crush our economy.
Take the housing crisis for instance. Not everyone agrees on who started the housing crisis problem. If you look a little down the road, you'll see "predatory lenders" just waiting to eat up their clients and spit them out. Look a bit further down the pipeline, you find government agencies accusing lenders of "discrimination" if they don't lend to people who don't qualify. Look a bit further into the sewer, you find activist groups, like ACORN, lobbying government to put the pressure on lenders to make these bad loan deals. Then you land in the stinky cesspool of lawyers like B. Hussein O., who spent their life's work representing ACORN.
Boston Globe writer Jeff Jacoby says of the US Representative of Massachusetts Barney Frank,
"...his fingerprints are all over this fiasco. Time and time again, Frank insisted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in good shape. Five years ago, for example, when the Bush administration proposed much tighter regulation of the two companies, Frank was adamant that "these two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis." When the White House warned of "systemic risk for our financial system" unless the mortgage giants were curbed, Frank complained that the administration was more concerned about financial safety than about housing."
Sounds like Frank's got a history of putting his foot in his mouth.
What does this mean for us? It means we get off our sleepy butts and tell our friends and family about what is happening. It means we drive someone, or lots of people, to the polls on election day. It means we help someone register to vote. It means we write our representatives and tell them if the vote for these things they won't get a vote from us. It means we take time to educate our young people about US history. It means we turn off the TV with it's brain numbing advertisements telling us what we want, and turn on real communication, fulfilling the real need for relationships. It means we make the media accountable for the propaganda they promote.
If we don't do these things, it means more government corruption, more favors to constituents and more of that "Change you can Bereave In."
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