ACORN's a Bad Nut
In the wake of the 2005 hurricane season, a group of rabid socialists that call themselves "ACORN" (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) got their name in the paper by whining about ... socialism's shortcomings.
Notwithstanding their pretense to be all about "social justice" (read: socialism) and "reform" (read: redistribution of property), their complaints to the leading local FEMA bureaucrat were obviously meant to make him a scapegoat for the failure of what has become the US federal government's socialist infrastructure to save hurricane victims from the effects of nature (as if it actually could).
According to their website, ACORN is twenty-five years old, and they actually take pride in having started out as a gaggle of welfare sucklings determined to win an ever greater portion of others' property, coercively confiscated from its original owners by the state.
Singling out Houston FEMA coordinator Tom Costello for what the paper described as "allegedly failed efforts" to help Texas and Louisiana hurricane victims, the ACORN folks celebrated a public conniption over the US federal government's failure to make it all better by giving them more "free" money and goods.
Of course, both parties were careful to avoid any mention of the fact that private charity and non-government organizations provided the bulk -- and the most efficient delivery -- of genuine relief to the storm-shattered areas. The indiscriminate and unaccountable redistribution of state-extracted plunder by so many FEMA bureacrats was presumed by both parties to be the SOP* response to natural disasters, despite its obvious failure to make a substantial difference.
Sadly, ACORN's ruckus isn't likely to be seen by the general public for what it really is -- a plea for more socialist plunder redistributed as "welfare" by big government, at the expense of all responsible, hard-working Americans. Instead, it'll probably be a shot-in-the-arm for statism in general, persuading a few more ill-informed people to mindlessly adopt the socialist agenda despite its persistent failure, both here and abroad, throughout history.
Wa-a-a-ah!
*SOP = standard operating procedure
Notwithstanding their pretense to be all about "social justice" (read: socialism) and "reform" (read: redistribution of property), their complaints to the leading local FEMA bureaucrat were obviously meant to make him a scapegoat for the failure of what has become the US federal government's socialist infrastructure to save hurricane victims from the effects of nature (as if it actually could).
According to their website, ACORN is twenty-five years old, and they actually take pride in having started out as a gaggle of welfare sucklings determined to win an ever greater portion of others' property, coercively confiscated from its original owners by the state.
Singling out Houston FEMA coordinator Tom Costello for what the paper described as "allegedly failed efforts" to help Texas and Louisiana hurricane victims, the ACORN folks celebrated a public conniption over the US federal government's failure to make it all better by giving them more "free" money and goods.
Of course, both parties were careful to avoid any mention of the fact that private charity and non-government organizations provided the bulk -- and the most efficient delivery -- of genuine relief to the storm-shattered areas. The indiscriminate and unaccountable redistribution of state-extracted plunder by so many FEMA bureacrats was presumed by both parties to be the SOP* response to natural disasters, despite its obvious failure to make a substantial difference.
Sadly, ACORN's ruckus isn't likely to be seen by the general public for what it really is -- a plea for more socialist plunder redistributed as "welfare" by big government, at the expense of all responsible, hard-working Americans. Instead, it'll probably be a shot-in-the-arm for statism in general, persuading a few more ill-informed people to mindlessly adopt the socialist agenda despite its persistent failure, both here and abroad, throughout history.
Wa-a-a-ah!
*SOP = standard operating procedure
posted by Mudrostovich | 7:42 AM
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