Part of me feels like corruption occurs because social workers and public service workers make so little money for the amount of work and the type of work they do. Now this does not excuse anything, they should have entered that field to help knowing it’s not a big money maker, but greed occurs at all levels of our society. And when you have people living in fish bowls, knowing what others have and never getting to touch it in charge of helping other people that sometimes make more than them, there is going to be this problem.

It is for this reason I most favor small grass roots efforts. It takes a lot less money and middle men for me to deliver a pot of soup to my neighborhood than it does to have my neighbors going to a soup kitchen and it provides a sense of community and responsibility.

Unfourtuantely most of the Acorn agencies under investigation are in areas that have a higher population of African Americans. Excepting Nevada which pulled its illegal fundraising from the prostitution game there.

I don’t however think it unreasonable that so many people at the DOJ are working on this because it is turning into a huge case. And yes, it does go back many years. Funny, it’s starting to look a little like the Bush administration paid for their party’s demise. Ironic.

(The guys from “South Park” did a piece where one of the kids applied to ACORN for a housing subsidy – he was running a ‘kissing business’, where his ‘girls’ charged $5.00 to kiss boys behind the school.

Of course, he was turned down for promoting prostitution.

Gotta love the guys who created “South Park”)…..
Sorry… forgot to say great post – can’t wait to read your next one!

(The guys from “South Park” did a piece where one of the kids applied to ACORN for a housing subsidy – he was running a ‘kissing business’, where his ‘girls’ charged $5.00 to kiss boys behind the school.

Of course, he was turned down for promoting prostitution.

Gotta love the guys who created “South Park”)…..

How does child care compare with ACORN? Prostitution has been the great thorn in the side of revenue gathering as it’s illegal. All this money rifling through underground fingers and it can’t be touched except through periodic police raids and secret buy-off. What better way to get a handle on it except through secret entities that teach ways to channel prostitution through legal income avenues. Child care as we know it today was the creation of a liberal agenda that persuaded the public by selling the idea of advanced social skills and an early learning foundation. Within this framework, child care has become an enormous profit making industry with a nice, fat tax bracket Internal Revenue can feed on. Selling legalized prostitution; even responsible prostitution with laws requiring regular medical check-ups, thus bringing down the risk of communicable diseases; to the public, has never met with very many fans and supporters. But the IRS, which is really very bi-partisan, only wants the money. If it can’t find it by working with right-wing conspirators, the most practical means is the liberal agenda.

It seems every program designed to assist the poor inevitably falls into dismal corruption, regardless of party. This is because exploitation is the manifest destiny of the successful. We all exploit in one way or another; we exploit our skills, we exploit our resources, but when we begin to exploit those less fortunate than ourselves, we’ve lost the cause of bringing humanity back into socialized politics.

Very good coverage, Grainne; stimulating and thought provoking. I hope the housing situation finds resolution instead of deteriorating into a hopeless scandal. There are many good families, strong men and women who are currently facing the choice of wandering aimlessly through the streets hoping to find work before all their assets are completely gone or doing something illegal in order to survive.