http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/31/when-congress-fails/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:29:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/31/when-congress-fails/#comment-112805 personalised t shirt Wed, 26 May 2010 15:53:58 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/07/31/when-congress-fails/#comment-112805 Thanks for your article Thanks for your article

]]> http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/31/when-congress-fails/#comment-80649 Morning Bell: What Would ACORN Do? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:34:55 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/07/31/when-congress-fails/#comment-80649 [...] When ACORN is not extorting money from corporations, it is pressuring politicians for taxpayer dollars. ACORN has been winning federal money since the Carter administration, and the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) estimates ACORN has received $16 million in federal tax dollars since 1997. In the 1990s, ACORN began shaking down local business communities and has established local “Housing Trust Funds” in more than 300 counties, cities and towns. The funds funnel money through groups like ACORN to produce new homes and refurbish existing ones. The holy grail for ACORN has been the establishment of a National Housing Trust Fund, and when the federal government was forced to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this summer, ACORN’s allies in Congress succeeded in making that slush fund part of the deal. [...] [...] When ACORN is not extorting money from corporations, it is pressuring politicians for taxpayer dollars. ACORN has been winning federal money since the Carter administration, and the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) estimates ACORN has received $16 million in federal tax dollars since 1997. In the 1990s, ACORN began shaking down local business communities and has established local “Housing Trust Funds” in more than 300 counties, cities and towns. The funds funnel money through groups like ACORN to produce new homes and refurbish existing ones. The holy grail for ACORN has been the establishment of a National Housing Trust Fund, and when the federal government was forced to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this summer, ACORN’s allies in Congress succeeded in making that slush fund part of the deal. [...]

]]> http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/31/when-congress-fails/#comment-54039 Alternative Discussion Questions for Barak Obama’s School Address « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:57:43 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/07/31/when-congress-fails/#comment-54039 [...] party controlling the assets of the government to destroy political opposition. President Obama has appropriated billions of our tax dollars for groups that mix social programs with partisan politics. One such [...] [...] party controlling the assets of the government to destroy political opposition. President Obama has appropriated billions of our tax dollars for groups that mix social programs with partisan politics. One such [...]

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