Senate Kills Amendment Blocking ACORN From Receiving Funding in Obama Youth Brigades Bill...
From Weasel Zippers:
This is the bill that will create an army of very well funded Obama-style community activists to push his far-left agenda ($5.7 billion for 250K people)...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate killed an amendment Thursday offered by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., that would have prohibited federal volunteer funds from going to the community group ACORN and its affiliates.
Vitter singled out the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a nationwide community organization of low- and moderate-income people. He laid emphasis on the fact that group members have been arrested for fraudulent voter registration.
Vitter contended that no charitable group with a political arm should receive the volunteer funding. “At the heart of this debate is whether this new federal bureaucracy would, in effect, politicize charitable activity around the country, which we certainly do not want,” Vitter said.
The amendment was offered to the National Service Act being considered by the chamber.
The bill is aimed at providing $5.7 billion to aid 250,000 volunteers across the country in the arenas of health care, energy, environment and education.
3 comments:
Obama to cancel moon landing program!! Better to cut crap like Acorn than space exploration.
Thousands of high tech jobs would be lost, and the US would be handing the world to the Chinese who WILL spend the money on a moonbase and all that implies.
Spending billions $$'s on green energy is a fine thing but that is what should be left to the private sector not manned space flights.
Pity the rest of us couldn't find some money so it would be a joint project - trouble is we're all broke.
A partnership of private enterprise would probably be a good thing but cancelling the moon project launchers will ensure China prevails.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8489097.stm
Shouldn't it be said than $5.7 Billion is going to Community Organizers who in turn will direct volunteers to do their partisan bidding? Where is my $5.7 to organize my friends in order to espouse my liberal or conservative tendencies ?
I have a question: How much is $5.7 billion per person, if you divide it up among 250,000 people?
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