{"id":4692,"date":"2008-09-27T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T04:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2008-09-27T23:02:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T06:02:05","slug":"promoting-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4692\/promoting-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Affordable Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t believe it when I read it; the bailout bill is “earmarked” and ACORN is one of the beneficiaries of the largesse. \u00a0 ACORN may control up to 20% of the $700 billion proffered by the Bush\/Obama Bailout Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ACORN?\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 THIS is what ACORN really is (from Sol\u00a0 Stern)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

ACORN\u2019s bedrock assumption remains the ultra-Left\u2019s familiar anti-capitalist redistributionism. \u201cWe are the majority, forged from all the minorities,\u201d reads the group\u2019s \u201cPeople\u2019s Platform,\u201d whose prose Orwell would have derided as pure commissar-speak. \u201cWe will continue our fight . . . until we have shared the wealth, until we have won our freedom . . . . We have nothing to show for the work of our hand, the tax of our labor\u201d\u2014claptrap that not only falsifies the relative comfort of the poor in America but that also is a classic example of <\/em>chutzpah, given ACORN\u2019s origins in a movement that undermined the work ethic of the poor. But never mind\u2014ACORN claims that it \u201cstands virtually alone in its dedication to organizing the poor and powerless.\u201d It organizes them to push for ever more government control of the economy, as if it had learned no lessons about the free-market magic that made American cities unexampled engines of job creation for more than a century, proliferating opportunity and catapulting millions out of misery.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember, ACORN has been one of the largest groups to criticize “predatory lending” and the use of sub-prime loans.\u00a0 Here’s ACORN President Maude Hurd, speaking about last night’s Presidential Debate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Given the recent turmoil in our financial markets and the ongoing negotiations around a bailout package for Wall Street, it\u2019s not surprising that much of the debate focused on the current economic crisis, which was in many ways predictable.\u00a0 ACORN has been sounding the alarm for years as more and more deregulation stripped protections for consumers and basic safeguards of sound lending. <\/em><\/p>\n

Senator McCain failed to acknowledge the trigger of this explosive crisis: predatory lending, which entrapped hundreds of thousands of homeowners into toxic mortgages they could not afford fueling record numbers of foreclosures.\u00a0 If Mr. McCain is unwilling or Read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t believe it when I read it; the bailout bill is “earmarked” and ACORN is one of the beneficiaries of the largesse. \u00a0 ACORN may control up to 20% of the $700 billion proffered by the Bush\/Obama Bailout Plan. ACORN?\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 THIS is what ACORN really is (from Sol\u00a0 Stern): ACORN\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1941,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1941\/new-times-likes-the-present-smarmy-tendentious-blather-wants-to-be-free\/","url_meta":{"origin":4692,"position":0},"title":"New Times likes the present: Smarmy, tendentious blather wants to be free!","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Even a blind pig can find an acorn now and then, and, in that spirit, The New York Times has discovered that cowering behind a paywall is a profitless pursuit of irrelevance. 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