The Pimps of Poverty

Now that societal cancer that is ACORN has been exposed to the light of day, the mainstream media is playing its usual role as progressive apologist, unnerved about how to approach a story so closely tied to their deity, Obama. The media template is to debate the ethics of the two intrepid youth who blew off the proverbial lid and portray ACORN as an anti-poverty group under fire from conservatives, But as usual, the media has gotten it wrong.

This "but look at all the good they have done" argument is really weak. Unless you consider helping pimps & God knows what other kind of miscreants hide from the law and set up brothels, good for civil society, everything else is pretty much negated, kinda like growing up in south Philadelphia in the 80's, a mafia hot bed, their influence was widespread. The thing is many of these guys had legitimate fronts, restaurants, construction companies, grocery stores, coffee houses, laundry mats, bars, you name it. They created jobs and even contributed to various charities, to meet many of these guys you would never know there was anything nefarious going on. When you got past the veneer many of them were stone killers, and criminals on just about every level.

One could argue that the mafia contributed more economically to their communities than ACORN ever could, The legitimate business they owned created wealth, and enabled people to provide for themselves. ACORN only sucks the life out the neighborhoods and the people it claims to advocate, by promoting an existence of government dependency. It is not surprising that ACORN would get caught in such a pickle, prostitution and illegal immigration (which is really just the importation of poverty) promote such societal blight like drug abuse, domestic violence and gang warfare, that only contribute to the sense of hopelessness and spiraling civil deterioration that ACORN exploits.

In the end ACORN is a parasite that hides between the lines of an absurd and immoral progressive tax code and in the gray areas of those thousand page pieces of legislation. It has become an appendage, a tentacle of the ever expanding state, existing for the sole purpose of gathering the liberty that the behemoth will inevitably consume. ACORN is portrayed as an anti-poverty group, in reality it is just the opposite.

Anthony D Dolpies