Obama Budgets Nearly $4 Billion for ACORN and Leftist Groups

Brother O's 2011 budget will reward ACORN and other left-wing cronies with up to $3.99 billion in taxpayer money.

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The funds would be disbursed by state and local governments through the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community Development Block Grant. "ACORN gets lots of money from the CDBG program--but it is nearly impossible to track it because HUD doesn't track all the money" once it reaches local and state governments, said Matthew Vadum, a senior editor at Capital Research Center. Nobody knows how much ACORN affiliates have received over the years in CDBG money, Vadum added. Members of Congress appear to have forgotten why they banned funding for ACORN and its affiliates last September. Dementia must plague a goodly number of House members for they are unable to recall the charges of embezzlement, voter-registration-fraud, and corruption as revealed in the Breitbart videos showing ACORN employees advising two reporters, disguised as a prostitute and a pimp, on how to set up a child prostitution ring and evade paying taxes. In December, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Gershon, a Clinton-appointee, resurrected ACORN by ruling that the ban was unconstitutional because Congress singled out the group for punishment that affected its ability to continue to obtain federal funding. Gershon's ruling is complete bull s**t; congressional grants are a gift, not a right. Neither ACORN nor any activist group is entitled to them. Congress has the right to cancel grant contracts for any reason, as it did in October 2008 when it cut funding for the spy satellite program. God help America if she doesn't end this travesty in the mid-term elections.