ACORN is:
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
You may have heard of the name ACORN on the news, but do you know who they really are? You may have even heard that Psudo-President Barack Obama once worked as a Community Organizer for ACORN, but do you know what they do?
Make no mistake, if you believe in preserving the American way of life, this is the enemy. If you believe in a Free Market Society; this is the enemy. If you believe in smaller government, lower taxes, strong defense, freedom of speech, and personal responsibility; this is the enemy. ACORN claims to be a Non-profit non-partisan organization, but campaigns and recruits new voters for left wing candidates. Members of ACORN call themselves Community Organizers, a polite word for socialists who extort money from the government and industry alike. The core discription of a Community Organizer came from the 1971 Book by Saul Alinski "Rules for Radicals" which is heralded as the Bible for over throwing Capitalism.
See "Rules for Radicals" below:
ACORN Claims they have not received significant Federal Support, see the proof here!
From ACORN's own Home Page:
ACORN is the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country. Since 1970, ACORN has been building community organizations that are committed to social and economic justice, and won victories on thousands of issues of concern to our members, through direct action, negotiation, legislative advocacy and voter participation. ACORN helps those who have historically been locked out become powerful players in our democratic system.
Community organizing: Each of the 1,200 local ACORN neighborhood chapters in 110 cities and 40 states brings neighbors together to work for stronger, safer and more just communities.
Issue campaigns: Each ACORN office carries out multiple issue campaigns. ACORN members across the country work to raise the minimum wage or enact living wage policies; eliminate predatory financial practices by mortgage lenders, payday lenders, and tax preparation companies; win the development of affordable housing and community benefits agreements; improve the quality of and funding for urban public schools; rebuild New Orleans; and pass a federal and state ACORN Working Families Agenda, including paid sick leave for all full time workers.
A recent study shows that our issue campaign victories have delivered approximately $15 billion in direct monetary benefits to our membership and constituency over the past 10 years.
Service delivery: ACORN and its allied organizations provide extensive services to our members and constituency. These include free tax preparation focusing on the Earned Income Tax Credit; screening for eligibility for federal and state benefit programs; and, through the ACORN Housing Corporation, first time homeowner mortgage counseling and foreclosure prevention assistance, and low income housing development.
Ballot initiatives: ACORN-backed ballot-initiative campaigns in 2006 helped raise the minimum wage in Ohio, Arizona, Missouri and Colorado, working with community-faith-labor coalitions on successful campaigns in each state.
Voter participation: Since 2004, ACORN has helped more than 1.7 million low- and moderate-income and minority citizens apply to register to vote.
ACORN is a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.
If you were able to stomach reading this Socialist BS all the way through without reaching for the Pepto Bismal, then you are stronger than I! Their own words tell the story of their true agenda; encourage and reward failure. These folks do not need an organization to represent them in Washington, they need to get off their butts and get a JOB! In their own tag line they claim to be non-partisan while shamelessly spewing out their Socialist Agenda and we the taxpayer finance all of it!