ACORN no longer federally funded Options

[dosomethin888]

I totally support this.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-b...ederal_fun.html

[mipadi]

The hypocrisy of this ACORN bullshit really gets my goat. A couple ACORN employees break the law, and a shitstorm ensues. However, we live in a country that still does business with Blackwater, and yet they're corporate felons. We live in a country where we still give contracts out to KBR, a corporation that not only employees gang-rapists, but actively prevents employees who are victims of rape from filing charges. We live in a country where corporate officers can routinely break laws, circumvent tax guidelines, etc., but when they f*ck up, we bail them out with taxpayer dollars. And yet, when a community-based organization wants to register poor people to vote, we get up in arms about it.

This case reeks of typical right-wing classism and racism. Right-wingers are pissed off because ACORN got poor people and black people to vote against Republicans, and now they're seeking revenge. If the right-wing had its way, the only people who'd be allowed to participate in politics would be white male landowners.