ACORN has Merely Gotten Worse

By Anthony Bialy

They’re now best known for being the H&R Block of call girls. But ACORN was bad before it was really, totally, reprehensibly bad. It’s easy to throw the organization under the bus after their pro-hooker-deduction stance was made public. By bringing us the films, Andrew Breitbart is officially the funniest home video program host ever, as he’s eclipsed even Bob Saget’s efforts. Still, it’s important to remember that the advocacy group in question has been sleazy from the start.

Their contemptible ways predate the emergence of their greatest skill, namely keeping pimp hands strong. It comes down to philosophy, namely the rotten one upon which ACORN was founded. Specifically, they’re advocates of the somewhat popular but ultimately counterproductive concept of taking your money and giving it to the downtrodden. Miserably, the racket thinks that their job is to help people who don’t know the rules to a crooked game.

For example, everyone knows of ACORN’s work promoting voter registration. But such a cause needs no outside work at all. Anyone who’s too lazy or ignorant to figure out how to sign up to vote on their own doesn’t deserve the right to enter a high school gymnasium, climb into a curtained booth, and flip democratic switches.

Plus, the group by chance seems to seek out voters who would just happen to tend to be big D Democrats. Call us skeptics, but conservatives might just be correct in thinking that the liberal association recruits only those who happen to align with their personal preferences.

The impoverished also shouldn’t fall for ACORN’s extra money promises. Their site proclaims that their “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.” Certainly, they didn’t also campaign to lower employment. But letting staff go is the course businesses inevitably choose when they have to pay everyone more.

It’s a different kind of high hourly rate than the one that’s a theme of the undercover videos. Regardless, advocates overlook that most companies possess a finite cash pile devoted to wages. The options come down to 1) layoffs, or 2) going broke paying the hourly workers. The latter might actually be agreeable to social justice types. But pricing the unskilled out of their first jobs just might not somehow ultimately be beneficial. Those at ACORN think they’re helping, and some low wage-earners think they’re being helped; the only thing missing is actual help.

The shady brothel’s ally has also done what it can to help people who can’t afford homes buy homes. As with many of our confused left-wing counterparts, they consider freedom from rent to be a basic human right; as a result, they’ve crusaded to lower mortgage standards. Who would ever think that people with limited means would default on dwelling payments? Of course, the bursting of the housing bubble ACORN helped inflate has tremendously excelled the growth of financial adversity, but that just means that they’ll have more people to help in the future.

That’s assuming the disgustingly corrupt group survives. If they persevere, they’ll continue to view government as an IV drip. In turn, we’ll see them further manipulate the system for the alleged benefit of the destitute. Their intellectual heirs are those who thought universal employment and a classless society sounded nice in textbooks. No wonder the left loves them so: ACORN acts like how they want Washington to operate.

ACORN is more corrupt than professional boxing and Boss Hogg combined. But it has pushed a troubled agenda long before they schemed to turn underage El Salvadoran sex slaves into a tax benefit. It’s not an exaggeration to equate their nut logo (http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12377) with the hammer and sickle, even if most of their executives have never been on a farm or seen the inside of a factory, respectively.

Unfortunately, they’re still divorced from reality. The only effective anti-poverty technique is to let people get rich on their own. Specifically, we should yearn for a government that doesn’t get in the way. We have to work hard ourselves when Washington does little more than kill or arrest bad guys. But limiting government to providing secure conditions for free markets is far preferable to an administration that tries to spend out of a recession with the grandkids’ money.

Most prominently, a flat tax would indirectly help low-wage earners by allowing more money to stay in the economy; it would serve as an actual minimum wage increase. Of course, it will also directly aid those who advance in careers. Still, ACORN persists in pretending that no regular citizens can get ahead without the assistance of benevolent guardians clad in “Yes We Did” t-shirts.

Unwittingly or not, ACORN-type groups don’t trust the underclass to ever move up: they think the disenfranchised can’t help themselves thanks to a rigged structure. It’s the saddest possible way to view America, but that doesn’t mean the concept lacks traction.

In particular, the most prominent sympathizer for a group that made its name fighting the system is now the system’s leader. Former community organizer Barack Obama worked with ACORN pal Project Vote and did legal work for the prostitute enablers. But their relationship goes beyond the direct ties.

Importantly, he thinks like they do. Obama looks at the underclass and sees soot-caked tenement residents slaving away in windowless shirtwaist factories, all of whom are helpless to affect their own plights. Their savior takes the form of a government run by him. He must think that way: why else would he do, well, everything he does?

Obama says he wants ACORN probed (http://bit.ly/kyJvq), but they’re so radioactive that such an opinion is a political formality at this point. His only other strategy is ignorance, which he’s trying out, too (http://tinyurl.com/n5o7×4). But it’s important to see through his efforts at casting off a group whose misdeeds he claims to not track.

Even if ACORN is successfully marginalized due to the release of the prostitution taxation evasion tapes, it won’t change the fact that our president agrees with every one of their pre-Breitbart policies. Their funding may be cut off. But remember who still signs this nation’s funding bills.

Anthony Bialy is a freelance writer and “Red Eye” Conservative in Western New York.

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