Why is the ACORN scandal important?
The federally supported group ACORN has been all over the news lately for faulty votr registration. No one can say that I don't have a firm grip on the obvious. I work with a blue-dog Democrat that is trying to tell anyone who will listen that this doesn't matter. "They can sign up as many as they want and it doesn't matter because they won't be allowed to vote." That is the mantra that I heard a dozen times today ad nauseum. That is, unless you live in a state like New Mexico.
In New Mexico, you don't have to show any ID to register to vote. You don't have to show a picture ID to cast your vote. Those are normal ballots cast at a polling center. Throw in absentee ballots on top of it and all of a sudden the potential for fraud becomes a lot more real. In a race that has been projected to fall according to several swing states, the actions of ACORN cast a looming shadow of doubt over the legitimacy of the election, regardless of the winner.
Perhaps the greatest problem of the ACORN scandal does not have a direct impact on the election. If it so wanted, the FEC could declare that because of unreliable voter registrations, all voters in the federal election must show a picture ID to cast a vote. Absentee ballots would have to be signed by an officer of the court, clerk, our military officer. You would have to quarantine the votes already cast and count them all but separate them to insure that they were not disenfranchised. The greatest ACORN scandal problem though is the use of federal dollars to fund a group whose stated agenda is to bring about the collapse of the capitalist economy by overloading it with regulation. I'm not going to regurgitate the best article on the topic. Read it here. The fact is that ACORN used deception to receive federal taxpayer support to advance its radical agenda, strong arm tactics to force the mortgage lending industry to issue worthless loans, and illegal voter registrations to throw elections into chaos and receive more funding for their socialist cause. The cause of destroying the capitalist economic system of the U.S.
The past days have demonstrated that they almost succeeded. But there is no accounting for the resilience of the American people and the unbridled potential for growth in the proper environment. That environment rewards innovation with success, hard work with personal satisfaction, and risk taking with wealth. In that environment a computer geek and his friends took some risk, worked hard and created an innovative system and business model that made them the richest men in the world. In that environment a WW II vet went from appliance salesman to developing and selling his own vacuum and now it is the largest vacuum cleaner company in the world. There are literally millions of stories similar to these on different scales throughout the American landscape.
That environment does not include the socialist paradigm of wealth redistribution to the witless, lazy, and timid. Barack Obama believes that it is unfair that the hard work of Bill Gates and David Oreck goes unpunished. His economic scheme would take away the incentive for future Gates and Orecks to make their mark in American history. If there is the intent to penalize and take away success beyond $250,000, why would anyone aspire to exceed that threshold? Why should a man who has never done anything for society except expand his political ambitions, determine what is a fair wage for everyone. That's what the $250,000 is. In a perfect ACORN/Obama world, everyone would receive $249,999. The producers would have their success stripped from them and given to the lazy, petulent, and apathetic.
I hear what he's selling and I'm not buying.
In New Mexico, you don't have to show any ID to register to vote. You don't have to show a picture ID to cast your vote. Those are normal ballots cast at a polling center. Throw in absentee ballots on top of it and all of a sudden the potential for fraud becomes a lot more real. In a race that has been projected to fall according to several swing states, the actions of ACORN cast a looming shadow of doubt over the legitimacy of the election, regardless of the winner.
Perhaps the greatest problem of the ACORN scandal does not have a direct impact on the election. If it so wanted, the FEC could declare that because of unreliable voter registrations, all voters in the federal election must show a picture ID to cast a vote. Absentee ballots would have to be signed by an officer of the court, clerk, our military officer. You would have to quarantine the votes already cast and count them all but separate them to insure that they were not disenfranchised. The greatest ACORN scandal problem though is the use of federal dollars to fund a group whose stated agenda is to bring about the collapse of the capitalist economy by overloading it with regulation. I'm not going to regurgitate the best article on the topic. Read it here. The fact is that ACORN used deception to receive federal taxpayer support to advance its radical agenda, strong arm tactics to force the mortgage lending industry to issue worthless loans, and illegal voter registrations to throw elections into chaos and receive more funding for their socialist cause. The cause of destroying the capitalist economic system of the U.S.
The past days have demonstrated that they almost succeeded. But there is no accounting for the resilience of the American people and the unbridled potential for growth in the proper environment. That environment rewards innovation with success, hard work with personal satisfaction, and risk taking with wealth. In that environment a computer geek and his friends took some risk, worked hard and created an innovative system and business model that made them the richest men in the world. In that environment a WW II vet went from appliance salesman to developing and selling his own vacuum and now it is the largest vacuum cleaner company in the world. There are literally millions of stories similar to these on different scales throughout the American landscape.
That environment does not include the socialist paradigm of wealth redistribution to the witless, lazy, and timid. Barack Obama believes that it is unfair that the hard work of Bill Gates and David Oreck goes unpunished. His economic scheme would take away the incentive for future Gates and Orecks to make their mark in American history. If there is the intent to penalize and take away success beyond $250,000, why would anyone aspire to exceed that threshold? Why should a man who has never done anything for society except expand his political ambitions, determine what is a fair wage for everyone. That's what the $250,000 is. In a perfect ACORN/Obama world, everyone would receive $249,999. The producers would have their success stripped from them and given to the lazy, petulent, and apathetic.
I hear what he's selling and I'm not buying.
posted by Moneyman at 6:28 PM
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