I sincerely hope this is my last post on Van Jones.  I want him back in San Francisco with his green jobs buddies.

One of the things that the White House has been consistent on through out the entire presidency of Mr. Obama has been their inability (or lack of desire) to check the backgrounds of the people they are bringing in and putting on the national payroll.  Michael Vick got more scrutiny before being allowed to play football than many of the people Obama has chosen to handle national policy decisions. 

I don’t know about the rest of you but I am getting a little tired of oops.  And while many of America still continue to swoon and speak of President Obama as “The One”, he continues to make stupid decisions and lead us down a path that even he has no clue where it will end.  He becomes embroiled in local politics, he pals around with America haters (both national and international), he spends money and has no idea on what he has bought, and he wants to influence your child’s life.  Mr. Obama, you are not God and you are not even Satan (your not smart enough).  So stop trying to play a deity.  Just go do your job for a few more years and then we will get somone in the office who actually likes this country.

Former Sen. John Edwards meets with ACORN members in Bridgeport, Conn. July 10 on his “Half in Ten” campaign tour to cut poverty by 50 percent in a decade.  After attending a closed meeting with Houston ACORN leaders and elected officials July 23, former Sen. John Edwards said he would fight “with every fiber of my being” to end poverty in America. Edwards has also announced anti-poverty plans with ACORN members in Denver, Los Angeles and Connecticut on his “Half in Ten” campaign tour.

Edwards is touring the United States as chairman of the Half in Ten campaign, with the goal of reducing poverty by half within a decade. Half in Ten is an initiative of ACORN, the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF), the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN), and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR).

Edwards joined Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa July 21 in announcing a $100 million affordable housing fund. The New Generation Fund is designed to combat homelessness and reduce the housing burden on poor and working families by offering affordable housing developers early-stage financing for properties intended for low- and moderate-income residents.

Los Angeles ACORN members facing foreclosure, eviction, sky-high rents and source of income discrimination testified at the press conference with Edwards.

“Half in Ten is about working together on a real plan to reduce and eliminate poverty in communities all across the country,” said Los Angeles ACORN member and single mother Donna Rodriguez, who pays 50 percent of her income in rent. “Today we highlighted a huge piece of the puzzle – the housing crisis – and announced one concrete step that will have a big local impact in providing new affordable housing.”

In Hartford on July 10, Edwards said that Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell was “wrong” to veto a raise in that state’s minimum wage after meeting with ACORN members. Raising both state and federal minimum wages is another key step in the Half in Ten campaign.

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I find it funny that Half in Ten and ACORN cannot find anyone other than John Edwards to rep for them.  Could they pick anyone less relavant or more disliked in the public eye than a man who cheated on his wife, fatherd a “love” child, botched the cover up, and embarrassed his wife publicly.  Did I mention she was undergoing Chemotherapy for cancer at the time?  This is the guy that wants to tell us to give our precious tax monies up to a group of people who have plenty of time to volunteer, but apparantly litle time to work.  John, would you please just go away, and take ACORN and HIT with you.

Here are the stated goals of the Half in Ten organization

Child Care

Child Tax Credit

Earned Income Tax Credit

Foreclosure Prevention

Green Buildings and Green Jobs

Minimum Wage

Unemployment Insurance

Sadly no mention of GETTING ANYONE A JOB. Don’t let the Green Jobs line  fool you.  They are talking about giving people money to retrofit thier homes to be more green.  If I understand the goals of the organization as stated above and the sponsors below, it’s not about ending poverty by giving people jobs to help them, it’s about taking money from the tax paying, American public and passing it out to the people that work for or are supporters of ACORN.

It is natural for a person to care for themselves and to work, however,  individuals can be trained to do  otherwise.  As proof, look at the current welfare system.  The things that John Edwards and his supporters talk about have been tried in this country since the first organized colonies. In modern times FDR had the same goals but failed.  LBJ created, “The Great Society” and not only did it fail to get people out of poverty it actually imprisoned them as generations of people have forgotten how to live without government assistance.

Many conservatives have steered clear of the subject and have chosen to avoid confronting ACORN and their stated goals.  They do not want to seem indifferent to the needs of others.  I say, take ACORN and the rest of the liberals head on.    If ACORN and the others  want to help the low/no income people (as I do) then let’s put them to work.  If you want to talk about compassion, then talk about the generations of people that live on government assistance because they no longer know how to take care of themselves.  Of all the human injustices in this country, taking a person’s self value and keeping them on the government leash is the worst.

Work........So natural a caveman could do it

ACORN in Retreat

By Matthew Vadum American Spectator

While ACORN retreats across the nation, an upcoming voter registration fraud trial may reveal embarrassing information that hinders the ability of the embattled radical activist group to function.

The testimony will come as soon as next month from former ACORN Las Vegas field director Christopher Edwards. Charged with election fraud by Nevada’s Democratic attorney general, he cut a deal last week with prosecutors and has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters.

ACORN allegedly enforced voter registration quotas with its employees and offered bonuses for extra registrations. Nevada law forbids the use of such incentives on the theory it encourages canvassers to file fraudulent registrations. No wonder: ACORN registers “Mickey Mouse” and various celebrities, out-of-state residents, and dead people, every election cycle.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/26/acorn-in-retreat

ACORN....Nuts with Government Funding

 The Minnesota Independent, a hard left leaning blog released an article, which bashed Michele Bachmann R-MN. In the on-line article, ACORN took a swipe at Michele by saying she made false claims that the group was under indictment for voter fraud.

Rep. Bachmann had pushed an amendment which on Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed. The amendment offered to the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, would ban groups facing federal indictment for voter fraud from receiving federal foreclosure relief funds. Bachmann wrote, “Before we commit anymore taxpayers’ dollars, I want to ensure that organizations, such as ACORN, are prohibited from receiving funds while simultaneously facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations. Although I do not support the underlying legislation, I am pleased that the Committee took these measures to provide some layer of protection for taxpayers. ACORN and Barney Frank were not amused.

ACORN and the blog/newsites that supports them, have taken some of the Bachmann’s statements and used them in an effort to discredit her. It’s true that from time to time Bachmann does express views that would be better thought, not spoken. (“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”) Her random thoughts aside, her speech and writings on policy matters have been spot on. At least Bachmann is not alone, Barney Frank who originally backed the amendment (surprise) is withdrawing support because of the ACORN pressure. ACORN also point’s out that Bachmann’s district has the highest foreclosure rate in the state. Hello! It is also the most populated district in the state. In fact it is the only major population center in her state.

ACORN, after laying the foundation to discredit Bachmann, went on to defend their impeccable record of fighting voter fraud.“The truth is, no criminal charges related to voter registration have ever been brought against ACORN, its leadership, or partner organizations,” the group said in a statement.