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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (91625)	9/24/2010 1:08:51 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224928

ken..."Stocks surge at the open".... Is hussein buying..with tax payer dollars... or another way of saying it is hussein buying votes with tax payer dollars ahead of elections?? Plunge protection team following White House orders??

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (91625)	9/24/2010 1:12:32 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224928

Ken...Are hussein obama's trainees falling by the way side? Will obama follow them? stay tuned. ACORN in trouble again Federal inspector says spinoff may have concealed fraud September 23, 2010 © 2010 WorldNetDaily wnd.com A spinoff of the controversial community organizing group ACORN has failed to comply with federal grant requirements and should be placed on "inactive status," asserts a report by the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ACORN, convicted in multiple voter-fraud cases, may have concealed fraud by destroying or failing to produce records, the investigation concluded. The OIG found the group received $3.25 million in housing counseling grants from HUD between 2008 and 2009. More than $2.544 million, nearly 80 percent, of the HUD grants were used to pay ACORN's salaries. HUD has awarded ACORN more than $19 million in housing counseling grants since 1995, the report points out. The report was released in response to a Sept. 16, 2009, request by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. It details the results of an investigation by HUD's Office of Inspector General of grant funds awarded under the agency's Housing Counseling Program to ACORN Housing Corporation Inc. of Chicago, now operating as Affordable Housing Centers of America," or AHOCA. AHOCA's communications director in Washington, D.C., was asked by WND to respond to the report but has not replied. The OIG said that for AHOCA "to continue as a HUD-approved housing counseling agency and for future awards consideration," it "must bring its operations into full compliance with applicable laws, regulators and policies governing HUD's Housing Counseling Program." The report said the organization was unable to properly account for its allocation of salary expenses, which raised "serious concerns," "particularly given the millions of federal and non-federal dollars" allocated. It also found "services procured from ACORN 'associated' organizations failed to meet the required tests of 'open and free competition.'" The inspector general recommends that HUD's Office of Single Family Housing consider placing AHCOA in inactive status while its "initiates corrective actions to address the exceptions and recommendations in this report." Issa said any organization that applies for and accepts taxpayer dollars has a responsibility to act consistently with federal law. "It doesn't matter if it's $10 or $10,000," he said. "There is no acceptable amount of abuse or mismanagement that the federal government should tolerate when it comes to the taxpayer's dollars." The inspector concluded ACORN may have concealed fraud by destroying or failing to produce records. "A determination could not be made as to what activities the employees performed or which grant to charge for those activities," the report says. "Consequently, HUD had no assurance that it did not bear more than its fair share of the costs incurred for salary expenses of AHC's counselors." ACORN Housing also received more than $27.269 million from other federal and non-federal sources, according to the report. Among the reports other conclusions was that ACORN charged the government salary costs for employees after they were terminated and charged 2008 salary expenses to a 2009 grant in violation of the HUD grant agreement. "Unfortunately," the report said, "ACORN's money laundering is impossible to track. "Further, cost or price analysis and documentation to support the basis and justification for the services was not readily available," the OIG concluded. An Republican oversight committee report in April 2010 was titled "ACORN Political Machine Tries to Reinvent Itself" and a July 2009 report asked "Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as a Criminal Enterprise?" During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama insisted he had nothing to do with ACORN after the inner-city advocacy group became engulfed in controversy over voter-registration fraud. But in August 2008, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported the Obama campaign paid $832,598.29 to ACORN "offshoot" Citizens Services Inc. for "get out the vote" projects from Feb. 25 to May 17. Obama also was captured on video during the campaign telling ACORN "you have a friend in me."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (91625)	9/24/2010 2:45:57 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224928

Investors see NOVEMBER from their house...& they're gleeful - finally feeling positive again in a lonnnng time.