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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (40609)	8/20/2008 9:22:26 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224744

Soros is doing what companies and lobbyist often do----give to both sides. Does seem a little unbalanced in the giving. "From the link: Dem's Platform Includes Slush Fund For Soros By MICHELLE MALKIN Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:30 PM PT The Democratic Party platform is like a bag of pork rinds. You never know what high-fat liberal government morsel you're gonna get.-----" To the portion on Soros and Acorn------seems like hidden contritubions to Obama through ACORN---mj From Malkin: "Even more troubling is how the Democratic Party/Obama plan would siphon millions or billions of tax dollars into the Soros empire without taxpayer recourse. Obama promises "accountability" measures to ensure the money is spent wisely. But who'd assess effectiveness of the spending? Why, experts in the social entrepreneurship community, of course. Fox, meet henhouse. Soros has donated some $5 billion of his fortune to left-wing nonprofit groups through the Open Society Institute — an institution committed to Soros' militant ideology of toppling the "fascist" tyranny of the United States, which he says must undergo "de-Nazification" in favor of "justice." The mob at Obama-endorsing MoveOn.org, purveyors of the "General Betray Us" smear against Commanding General, MNF-I, David Petraeus, is the most notorious Soros-backed political arm. But scores of other activist nonprofits have received Soros funding under the guise of doing nonpartisan "community" or "social justice" work — and it's exactly such groups that would be first in line for the Democratic Party/Obama's "social investments." Point in case: Acorn. As I've reported, Obama's old friends at the Chicago-based nonprofit now take in 40% of their revenue from American taxpayers. They raked in tens of millions in federal antipoverty grants while some of their operatives presided over massive voter fraud and others were implicated in corporate shakedowns and mortgage scams across the country. Soros has donated at least $150,000 to the group, according to Investor's Business Daily, and "heads a secretive rich-man's club called 'Democracy Alliance' that has doled out $20 million to activist groups like Acorn." Once the spigot is turned on, there's no turning back. Where are fiscal conservatives on this boondoggle? Well, if you're wondering why the McCain campaign doesn't raise hell, it's because McCain himself is a Soros beneficiary. His "Reform Institute," a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501c(3) group focused on campaign finance reform, was funded by the Soros-funded Open Society Institute and Tides Foundation. Mj Comment: Seems that McCain's 'Reform Institute, focused on campaign finance reform has had little impact when we look at the illegal bundling of the funds to Hillary and Obama and the funds such as those supporting ACORN. Didn't Obama claim to have worked on campaign finance reform with McCain? mj