ACORN
ACORN, a community organizing group founded by Wayne Rathke, engages in fights for social justice through mobilizing
primarily lower-income people in urban areas. ACORN is attributed to:
- Founding the New York Working Families Party in 1998, whose issue initiatives
include
(see the ACORN Working Families party platform |
view the PDF on ACORN):
- Rent controls in New York City
- Mandated paid medical and care leave for full-time employees
- Higher taxes on the wealthy; lower taxes on the poor
- Free college education
- Extension of many rights and services to illegal immigrants
- The People's Platform, written in 1990 and captured via archive.org, as
published on the ACORN Web site
(see the ACORN platform in 1990 |
view this PDF on ACORN). Just a few of the "planks" of this platform include:
- Deliver a piece of the present and the fruits of the future to every man, to every woman, to every family.
- In our freedom, only the people shall rule. Corporations shall have
their role; producing jobs, providing products, paying taxes. No more, no
less. They shall obey our wishes, respond to our needs, serve our
communities.
- Government shall have its role: public servant to our good, fast
follower to our sure steps.
- We will have our birthright. We will live in richness and freedom.
- Prevent the displacement of low and moderate income people from their homes
- Require companies which reap a large profit to hire and train the unemployed.
- Require companies which make workers "obsolete" through technological change and
automation to retrain these workers in new, employable skills at company
expense.
- Guarantee a minimum annual family income at a figure equivalent to the most
recent Bureau of Labor Statistics "medium living standard," adjusted for
inflation.
- Establish The right to company or government financed child care for
the worker's children.
- Establish the right to company or government financed health insurance.
- Permit striking workers to receive unemployment compensation, welfare,
and food stamps.
- MUCH more
- Participation in and/or allegations of:
- Voter registration fraud in 14 states. ACORN is under active investigation
(read the article discussing ACORN voter registration fraud |
view the PDF).
- Financial misrepresentation, as charged by former workers. ACORN has allegedly fired employees who have
questioned their accounting practices.
- Embezzlement of nearly $1 million from by Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wayne Rathke,
and concealment of this from the ACORN board of trustees for nearly 10 years
- Advising possible partners and members to break laws and hide illegal
activity as needed, as recently demonstrated at the Baltimore chapter of ACORN
(see the ACORN under-cover video),
the Washington, DC chapter of ACORN, and the Brooklyn chapter of ACORN. Because of these activities, the House of Representatives and the Senate have both now individually
voted to cut all federal housing funding to ACORN.
President Obama proudly acknowledges his ties to and work WITH ACORN and when
accepting their endorsement for President. From his Web site is his statement:
"I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That's what I did for three
and half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to Chicago
was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the
importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my
entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter
registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we
appreciate your work.”
(read Barack Obama's statement on ACORN |
view the PDF showing Barack Obama's statement on ACORN)
Bottom line: ACORN connects President Obama directly with
a highly Marxist agenda and corruption.
Click here for more on ACORN and to see more Obama czars and Obama associates
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