The American Spectator

hunter| 11.14.09 @ 8:19AM

My advice to Acorn: GET A JOB. Take the signs out of the windows. Turn the heat and water off turn the keys back in to the landlord, quit wiping snot on your sleeves, and get a job. The good times are over. Bye.

Oldefarte| 11.14.09 @ 11:30AM

This is typical of the insane culture that these people now live by, believing that it is their RIGHT to somehow be entitled to others' assets/wealth/money [ie taxpayers' funded government]. Georgia's John Lewis recently proclaimed that it citizens have a RIGHT to universal/Obama healthcare, which coundn't be further from the truth. It's insanity-----taxpayers should force government to defund each/every program that is remotely connected to WELFARE and therby force these people to work for a living, like the rest of us have to do. Americans should be sick and tired of these outlandish demands by America's underclass!!!!

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 11.14.09 @ 2:21PM

There’s nothing worse for the problem ridden or downtrodden in life, than a well intentioned enabler to make them feel like it’s someone else’s fault.

If you want to help somebody to stop doing something, or to help them start doing something they should be, or to change their lifestyle in some way, or to alter their bad behavior to good, it’s really easy to do. Stop helping them, cut them off!! It sounds really cold though, doesn’t it? But it’s not!! Don’t give them any more money, or advice, or answer your phone when they call, just cut them off, completely!! If you really want to see somebody get inspired fast, let them go to sleep hungry for a change, and watch them wake up in the morning, with a new purpose in life. But if you keep handing them the answers to their lives, they will not seek them out on their own.

And I know this for a fact, because I been there in my life, and when my enabler’s cut me off, amazingly when I woke up hungry thereafter, I instantaneously found a new motivation to live my life by. Now I’m almost ten years sober, and I don’t need any enabler’s anymore. I do everything on my own now, and make my own way in life just fine (thank you very much!!). It’s a friggin’ Miracle, it really is!! And the person who cut me off back then, as you can imagine, I wasn’t very happy with for a long time to come (my Old Boss), but today, I’ve gotten over it, and on occasions, I play golf with my former enabler. He helped me change my life back then, and the Lord knows I thank him for that gift everyday now.

You want to help ACORN find its way again, cut them off completely. And if their heart is really into the work that they claim to do, they will find a new way to accomplish it. They won’t need their big Daddy Government, to make their Organization a success; they’ll do that on their own terms.

But I get this odd feeling that without the Government’s constant handout’s, that ACORN, really doesn’t care about their stated mission of helping the poor in America, it’s just been the excuse they’ve been using to justify their extortionist existence.

George | 11.14.09 @ 8:41PM

How did these misfits get money from us, the taxpayer, in the first place? There was criminal intent in giving this organization one red cent in the first place. Congress should be charged with treason for their method of operation. But then we see how the Scondrel Rangle keeps his money safe from taxes....he cheats and nothing is done about it by his fellow cheaters. Because of this and others cases like this they are all a bunch of scoundrels.

Commie Blaster| 11.15.09 @ 10:40AM

Take a look a NY Congressman Jerrod Nadler's role in ACORN here: http://www.commieblaster.com/p.....chor-59575

See the pattern?

Nadler's dirty on this one and needs to go down.

Richard Baker| 11.15.09 @ 8:33PM

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies:
Do you mean extortion such as was perfected by the Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Reverend Al Sharpton, those pillars of the Gospel?

Nick| 11.15.09 @ 11:58PM

Mr. Baker,

I prefer the Extortionist Jesse Jackson and the Race-Baiter Al Sharpy-sharp myself.