Believe it or not, ACORN is asking for $6 million more in government money. That’s not really a surprise. They didn’t get millions and millions of taxpayer money over the past 25 years without being brazen. No, what I want to point out is the B.S. language that will get you federal money. Here’s there proposal:
“The Digital Empowerment Project bridges the digital divide in low-income and minority populations by promoting adoption through grassroots outreach, training participants in computer centers; and providing in-home computers and broadband access. This approach is based on research-driven practices and ensures an efficient and scalable effort to facilitate broadband in disadvantaged populations.â€â€¦
The scary thing is that this nonsense makes sense to federal bureaucrats. They know that underneath all the gibberish is the real fact that ACORN wants to take money from your pocket, possibly keeping you from buying a computer for your kid, and use it to buy a computer for someone who didn’t earn the money. I think they call that wealth redistribution, and the sad fact is that most federal programs are just that.