Federal Reserve Scandal Bigger than ACORN
It never fails to absolutely floor me when a liberal speaks. I can not get my mind around the evidence right before my ears (and eyes) that any group of people could be so assine in defending their beliefs (or at least their actions if not their beliefs). Rep. Barney Frank declared on the O’Reilly show Wednesday night, “ACORN was the recipient of funding throughout the Bush administration, with $14.2 million going from the Bush administration to ACORN through HUD. And I can attest that this was an entirely Executive Branch decision: No congressional action in any way, shape or form required that any of these funds go to ACORN as opposed to other organization [sic]. And I do not remember, during the period from 2001 to 2006 when the Republicans controlled the White House, HUD, the House and the Senate, and ACORN was receiving millions of dollars, any Republican objection to this.”
This is supposed to justify the games he as Chairman of the House Fiance Committee and Senator Dodd on the Senate Banking Committee have been playing with the Federal Reserve and protecting their practices while raking in big bucks from recipients of the Federal Reserve’s loose, immoral and destructive banking practices? Churning out money by the train load full while the dollar bill becomes all but worthless? And then sitting on bills introduced in both houses of congress and co-signed by almost one half of the members of both bodies that would make it mandatory that the Federal Reserve be audited and tell where the borrowed funds are going that tax payers will ultimately have to pay back.
But since I have already discussed the federal Reserve in the last post I will move on to ACORN. We can give some big cheers for we Americans bringing down one of the most corrupt and pervasive organizations with its affiliates in America. How any affiliates and who they are we haven’t gotten a handle on yet, but ACORN the parent non-profit is coming down thanks to two young reporters who did the prostituted and her pimp ACORN expose and a whole lot to grassroots movements of Americans like us putting pressure on our elected officials to clean up their act.
ACORN has been around for a long time and probably would have continued getting some small time federal funding (app. 20% of their budget) if Barack Obama hadn’t brought his old home boys in to the national spotlight and tried to shove them down the American throat by giving them a prominent role in the 2010 Census and then moving the oversight of the 2010 Census out of the Commerce Department and into the White House. Then calling upon them to disrupt Tea Party Rallies and the August Townhall Meetings But he did make them a focus and the cesspool sprang open. This outfit is filthy from top down and this is what dearest Barney was trying to defend. This man is a joke and should be an embarrassment to his constituents, but they elect him every two years like clock work.
Update: this is what is becoming of ACORN. (Many of these things I have posted on previously in one form or another). A with more investigations ongoing and sure to turn up more dirt, ACORN’s private funding is drying up along with losing government funding both state and federal. This due to pressure from the people.
The ACORN scandal was exposed by the BigGovernment.com website, which is now urging donations to a legal defense fund for the filmmakers, who are being sued by ACORN.
Meanwhile, some conservative Catholic groups have been putting pressure on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which gave ACORN $7.3 million over the last ten years, to de-fund other groups that engage in activities inconsistent with Catholic teaching.
Rob Gasper, the founder of Bellarmine Veritas Ministry, launched an investigation which found that the CCHD had funded groups advocating abortion or prostitution, or both.
As a result, on the insidecatholic.com website, prominent Catholic writer and thinker Deal W. Hudson has called for the elimination of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, saying, “No amount of house-cleaning is going to make this arm of the USCCB [United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] worthy of our donations.”
No side, party, philosophy, or faction has a monopoly on rigidly adhering to their position despite evidence Brenda. That’s why we do not get much accomplished in society / government anymore.
I was a big fan of Irving Kristol. David Brooks recently wrote the following in his column following Kristol’s death last week:
“He [Kristol] was unabashedly neoconservative. But he also stood apart, and directed his skeptical gaze even on his own positions, and even on the things to which he was most loyal… ‘There are no benefits without costs in human affairs,’ he once wrote. And so there is no idea so true and no movement so pure that it doesn’t require scrutiny. There was no position in this fallen world without flaws.”
All of us should re-examine our views and the evidence supporting them every single day. A day gone by without doing so means that one may miss something importance bearing on his or her position.
“All of us should re-examine our views and the evidence supporting them every single day. A day gone by without doing so means that one may miss something importance bearing on his or her position.”
Reggie, this I wholeheartedly agree with. And I try to do. This is why I read the Huffington, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Campbell Brown No bias, No bull CNN and some other less conservative sites almost on a daily basis. As you have often said and I have learned over the decades, there are at least (what is it?) 67 sides. I try to see these other sides and see if they have merit. If the information they are offering clear and logical and fits with what I know is factual evidence.. It is just that on these sites and with the Left and liberal press I find so little that appeals to my common sense. The latest example of stupidity to my mind that they all bought into: there were “tens of thousands” of people at the March on Washington Sept 12th. For God’s sakes couldn’t any of them look at the pictures and SEE that they were way way off? If Obama’s election had filled the Mall with a million and a half people then how could the march which filled the Mall and Constitution Avenue back 7+ blocks and side streets have been tens of thousands”?
Ialso read the sites of several Democrat Senators and Representatives that i have grow to respect over the years for factual information. These people tend to go lightly, very lightly on propaganda that isn’t quite true. They seem to be asking you to read between the lines. When they are strongly for a certain issue I take another careful look and sometimes can see their point of view and alter mine accordingly sometimes.
As for Obama I promise you I keep looking for something he has or is doing that I can agree with. I keep looking for something I believe is good for my country. He is after all the President. I didn’t want him and I stated my views clearly before the election, but since he was elected I prayed he would be if not a great then a good president. Then I prayed that he would do no harm while president. Now I have stopped praying because my thoughts are not for prayers.
Can you tell me one thing he has done that has been for the benefit of the United States? Please? BB
Nice discussion Brenda.
Quite frankly Brenda, I can not identify one thing, with confidence, of a positive nature other than conveying to many nations around the world that we are willing to engage them in a conversation, not just dictate to them because we are powerful and have the upper hand.
Quite frankly, all of us should be concerned about his policies thus far, but at the same time, I feel that it is a tad early to know what works in this type of situation.
The world, not simply the US, is in a big mess, which has been perhaps 25-40 years in the making. I personally did not want Obama to win the election, since I was absolutely convinced that he would become a one-term President and be perceived as a poor performance, for reasons way beyond any of his actions. I simply think that the problems are way too large and complex for any one country or society to address.
I think that it is going to take 8 – 10 years for us to truly swing out of this funk, for a multitude of reasons.
Finally, I do not think that any candidate, whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green, or Libertarian, would be doing any better right now. However, that is pure speculation, and I do not like to speculate.
The world is in a big mess and it will take as long to get out of it as it took to get into it. Frances problem is the population have all become “entitled”. French workers get 10 weeks paid vacation per year by government mandate. They also can not be fired from their jobs for any reason. The unemployment rate among the 20 somethings range from 20% to almost 50% for immigrants and Muslims. As a result of all this their economy is sunk. Commerce hasn’t a chance in France.
England is stymied by the same type of socialism and entitlements mentality with the added government policy of doing anything not to upset their Muslim population. The hands of the police and courts are tied because the government fears another IRA type rebellion. Immigrants from the Middle East and Africa are flooding into Great Britain like the Mexicans are flooding into the US. (Between the two we are lucky to have the Mexicans!) As a result of government in action and illegal immigration and birth rates among Muslims Great Britain will be a Muslim state sometime in the next two decades if not sooner. Holland already is. And the European Union is seeing more and more Muslim representing the various countries.
The countries of Asia are either dragging their people into the 21st century or trying to regress to the 5th century. Or, and this is a big problem for the world: they are doing both at the same time with the governments acquiring 20th Century weapons for their 5th century mentality. The most dangerous problem in Asia is that the countries do not trust each other and any form of cooperation is always done at arms length. With this distrust is of course the handmaidens nationalism and corruption. All the Asian countries accept corruption as a part of daily life and dealings. Bribes are expected on every level from the local bakery to the highest government office.
The one light in Asia is the almost frantic quest for education among some of the countries. This gives me great hope that Asia will be able to lead the world out of this mess.
I also see the movement in America in demanding we move back to the basics in education and the promises of our Constitution in public life as a good sign that we, the United States, will be a free and willing partner with Asia in leading the world into the future. I was very impressed with the number of young people 25 to 40 with young families I saw in the Tea Party Rallies and the March on Washington. It is true that the elderly who are dependent upon Medicare are leading the way in trying to kill any Health Care Reform, but the group of young families are going far beyond that in their demands for change. They are demanding honesty and promising to retaliate if they don’t get it. Congress is aware of this too. The way Congress jumped on the ACORN thing was a sign of this awareness of what the young are demanding. The only thing wrong with the
ACORN deal is that Congress was trying to throw a bone and hoping that would satisfy and it won’t happen. The young who grew up with so much going wrong in their lives are awake and angry. They don’t want the life they had for their children; the sordid environment /entertainment, the crime and fear, the alienation from each other even when living next door, the miserable schools and educational goals as government becomes more involved with educations and allowing parents less and less control, the ever growing governments local as well as national and the reliance of the world on Americans being the world’s policemen and protectors. Yes, they are awake and going to stay awake. Things will change! As the young Marine told the Congressman at a town hall meeting “keep your hands off my health care and keep your hands off my kids”, “I am keeping my oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic; when are you going to start keeping yours?”
Now for Obama, or as you say, any other President. I agree no one in this time could do what would be considered a good job no matter what was done because too much is messed up and too much needs done. But, Dear Lord, is it too much to ask that the President and Congress at least do no harm? Obama and the liberal/progressives Democrats are only creating more problems that will further degradate our economy, our way of life and drag down even further the less able and more vulnerable in our society. BB
Here’s a thumbnail of what it takes for a society to be prosperous.;
1) An inventive / innovative class; people have to want to invent things and processes
2) Cross-culturalization, where multiple inventors get together and compare their inventions, and newer \ better inventions are created
3) Seaports or trade route intersections
4) Business flowing from invention / innovation
5) Jobs flowing from business
6) A good life flowing from more people having jobs
7) Education encouraging the repeat of the process
Either society sets this in motion, governs the process, and maintains it, or it does not. If you leave it to chance, you might be on top for a while but you can’t be on top indefinitely. But that is a cost of freedom, when you can not direct people what to do with their lives.
My suspicion is that China will be the next world power because they do tell more people what to do, and they are more controlling. More free? Of course not. But more planning, organization, consistency, and coordination will take place under their model.
We were cross posting here Reggie. I agree again and this is exactly what i believe the newly awakened and involved young in America will do. They will “Either society sets this in motion, governs the process, and maintains it,”. It was our generation that dropped the ball and left things to chance. It is our generation who allowed the minority and whackos to dictate social morals while we tried to be oh so understanding and “democratic” and what we took as sophisticated as we followed a decadent Europe.
Our kids, yours and mine, are not happy with the world we handed them and they are going to take back their lives. I was so proud and happy seeing these young people out! I wondered if any of them were my previous students whom I had tried to teach to take nothing at face value, always look beneath the surface and then decide for themselves what they believe. And to always, ALWAYS allow that “voice within” to guide them; it would never fail to show them the right way as opposed to the wrong way. No matter what subject I was teaching these were my goals. BB