“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” –Anatole France
I find it insulting to imply people are blaming poor people for the loans they took out. It would be like blaming children because someone encouraged them to play with firecrackers. The blame is goes to ACORN and HUD for promoting the loans in the first place. It’s the organizations who knowingly promoted bad loans and threatened banks that are to blame. I feel bad that someone was fooled into believing they could afford a house when they couldn’t. HUD was picking up the tab for minimum down payments/closing costs as if this was the solution to home ownership. It wasn’t. Those costs pale in comparison to upkeep and taxes on a house.
Relevance?
Fraudulent voter registration would work better with same day voting. (Such allegations have been made in regards to the voting going on in Ohio.)
Still, even if the stories are true, I would think it is more likely due to overzealous ACORN members, and not a national level (coordinated) conspiracy.
One can already vote by mail, from overseas, from a military base in a foreign land, even in some precincts by email.
Requiring someone to drive into a voting center to provide ID is a barrier that is not now present, is it not?
That the effort Bricker requires of all voters falls heaviest on the poor.
It is some places, and isn’t others.
My point, though, is that we do not regard a jurisdiction that requires people to show up at the polls on Election Day to pull a lever as disenfranchising their ctitzens. And requiring an ID to vote is not a dramatic step from requiring that they show up at the polls – in fact, it’s less onerous; they have a whole year to get to the facility to get their ID and only one eleven to thirteen hour period to get to the polls.
So the organizations that handed out the bad loans like candy have no culpability?
Again – true, but already true for the act of voting. And we don’t regard that as a disenfranchisement.
Same day voting has another equally useful version done on a national level and that is the absentee ballot.
Not to mention Wisconsin’s effort to disenfranchise voters by it’s republican Attorney General.
There’s no doubt the accusations are substantially correct, and it doesn’t have to be a “conspiracy.” (And why do you lefties start blithering about “conspiracy” when nobody else has said anything about conspiracy? Is this going to become a habit, like accusing others of racism, sexism and homophobia?) It’s still corrupt politics, and it appears that members of a nationwide organization have been dealing in this kind of fraud around the country for years. That would certainly indicate the organization is corrupt, even if the higher-ups at the national level weren’t directly involved in any unethical or criminal activity. In the example I gave, ACORN members were threatening government workers with violence against person and property. Doesn’t that tell you something is rotten in the state of Denmark?
From your source (by the way, an opinion piece is, in my estimation amongst many, just about the weakest possible form of substantiation…)
It is good that the author brings a non-partisan and impartial view to this issue. I regret that no dirty fucking hippies were implicated, but am satisfied that is an oversight.
Moving along…
Several? Merciful Og, several! That could be as many as…what? five? seven? It might even be ten! I clutch my pearls and faint dead away!
ACORN has been involved in voter fraud and intimidation tactics for a long time. Some ACORN members were charged with this in the last election, as well.
The real scandal here is that ACORN is treated as a legitimate, mainstream NPO, when in fact it’s an activist organization wholly in bed with the Democrats. ACORN should not get a nickel of government money.
Of course, the amusing aspect of this is that it’s the left that’s always accusing Republicans of fixing or ‘stealing’ elections, but when it comes down to catching people with their hands actually in the cookie jar, far more often than not it seems to be people trying to rig the election for Democrats.
Obama has some pretty strong ties to ACORN. He’s worked with them lots on the past. Shouldn’t be be distancing himself from this organization by now? ACORN’s antics also helped exacerbate the sub-prime mortgage fiasco, because they have staged protests, filed lawsuits and in general harassed financial institutions who refused to give out mortgages to what they saw as unqualified borrowers.
Would this also be a good place to point out that Barack Obama’s donor database is full of false donors and questionable money from unknown sources in huge amounts?
And in other news, the Pope is Catholic, and bears sleep in the woods. Everything falls heaviest on the poor. Why would this be any different? And why should it make me any happier about having my vote neutralized by a faudulent one?
I always pictured you as a hemp/peace sign necklace kinda guy, luci
Cite?
It seems trickle-down economics has morphed into trickle-down blame.
It’s ACORN that we should be demanding $700 Billion dollars from to fix this mess?
And of course, Barack Obama has an “intimate link” with them, so that means he worships an evil moon-god now or something.
Fuck me. I need a program to keep up with all this.
It does no such thing.
is about as close as he gets. He offers no proof whatever of this slander, which you offer as solid fact based on nothing but his say-so.
Perhaps if you stop disgracing yourself now, you may yet manage to retain a scrap of dignity.
So which of his facts do you deny and on what grounds do you deny them?
A sneer? That’s all you’ve got? That’s the best you can do? From the column:
You think you can make facts like that go away with sarcasm and ridicule?