Comments on: Can bankers be punished like ACORN?

By: 1 Voice of America

1 Voice of America — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:39:45 +0000

Enter your comments here YES WE CAN!! All we have to do is to repeal the 17th Amendment and ergo — 3 problems solved. [1] Eliminate the federal power to tax our incomes. [2] Give each of our States back its rightful place in curbing the power of the Federal Government and eliminate at the same time the ability of any cartel to rule our government from the shadows. [3] Regain control of our assets and currency. As to ACORN, may I ask precisely what is your own relationship to that organization or any of its tentacles? It has been corrupt from the beginning. Rathke used it in a shell game to thwart our lawful electoral process and based his tactics on a book called “Rules for Radicals” and indirectly caused a large part of the banking failures that are to this very minute threatening the collapse of our Constitutional Republic. CHECK IT OUT — use your power of the press to get at the root of the problem instead of wearing a Party Hat to keep a meaningless distraction to the real problems in our society going on. For every Phil Gramm there is a Theodore [Chappaquiddick] Kennedy, etc. Get the facts and report them, all of them. The videos were evidence of far more than a few “bad apples” and you should know it in your journalistic bones — if any you have.

By: AFXM

AFXM — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:34:33 +0000

Cynthia Tucker, You are a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist , write about
” A Truth that Matters ! ”

ACORN is a Joke ! The ACORN story is nothing but peanuts !
It’s a Political Diversion to keep the News Media and Journalist such as yourself from discovering the truths that matter.

Write about how Phil Gramm has spent a lifetime trying to position himself to Rape the U.S. Economy & Defraud American Taxpayers and then Tell how he almost succeeded.
If you don’t know how, Then Find Out !
And don’t forget his wife Wendy.

Bernie is in Jail.
Where is Swiss Bank Giant Vice Chairman of Financial Services Phil Gramm ?

By: 12Gauge

12Gauge — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:35:03 +0000

Love the racism claims….you all realize that ACORN & SEIU were the brain-childs of the the Rathke Brothers, right ??? And these two are Radical White Men that are at the top of the Executive Branch of both organizations………Can you say a New type of Slavery…with the Massas being white men & the Slaves being those who work in the ACORN/SEIU offices & go out into the streets to pound the pavement, the ridicule their opposers & confront & physically attack their opponenets……

It would make a great Greek Tragedy, if it wasn’t true.

12G

By: Call it like it is.

Call it like it is. — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:38:25 +0000

This is too funny. We have been asking the AJC to hit on ACORN for the last couple of weeks, and finally all you can come up with is this?

I mean at the very least I was expecting some kind of crazy spin on how somehow, someway it had to be Bush’s fault that ACORN is teaching pimps and their women on how to cheat the system.

Here Cynthia, I will help you. “Well if it wasn’t for Reagan pumping up military spending back in the 80’s, there would have been money in the system to help educate our young urban men to keep them from being pimps. This is all the complete fault of you Right Wingers!!!!!! I hope you all burn!!!”

Feel free to use this Cynthia.

By: stands for decibels

stands for decibels — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:55:00 +0000

can we muster the gumption to do something about the bankers and financiers who have done such serious damage to the country?

No.

This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.

By: Austin.Texas

Austin.Texas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:36:55 +0000

Why is this something I should worry about?
There are a hundred different frauds and scandals to chose from.
How about -
Pfizer shamed with $2.3 billion fine for marketing fraud
and
Early this month former AIG CEO Greenberg agreed to pay a $15 million fine to settle fraud charges that alleged the company had engaged in deceptive accounting practices

The only reasons to focus on one fairly insignificant possible fraud is because it helps make a partisan point, and it involves those darkskinned people.

The financial institutions committed Trillions of dollars worth of fraud, which affected the whole world economy, and some people can’t understand why that is worth talking about???

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:13:17 +0000

Ms. Tucker,
I fail to see the correlation between “The bankers” and these ACORN employees? The ACORn employees repeatedly over multiple offices and areas of the country all committed fraudulent and CRIMINAL acts. The bankers, though you certainly disagree committed NO LEGAL CRIMINAL actions. You want to change laws make their actions criminal for future prosecutions, go ahead. But don’t call for people to be prosecuted for acting within the current law!

By: whatever

whatever — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:46:20 +0000

It’s amazing that this organization that is supposed to be non-partisan somehow seems to support democrats 100% of the time. Their PACs have been great funnels of money into democrat campaigns.

Well, just nice to see that the Democrats do not hold the moral highground any more than the republicans.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:39:57 +0000

I’ve heard of unmitigated gall before, but Tucker takes the cake with this piece.

By: TRUTH

TRUTH — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:38:31 +0000

Georgia continues to show its truly blind ignorance and bumpkin-ism. ACORN was a mess. Period. Who didn’t know that? Ooooh, so now that their funding has been cut off, the ReThuglicans think they have something?? Seriously?? You’ve tried every other angle to try and bring down the President and the Democratic Party, even to the point now where you’re openly advocating violence and civil disobedience. Now you’ve GOT PROOF!!! ACORN is the evil that has gripped this country and pulled it into the murky pits!!! (The Horror!!). It surely has nothing to do with Big Insurance robbing the nation’s citizenry. Or allowing the deaths of so many by cutting or refusing coverage. It has nothing to do with the Banking Industry robbing the nation’s citizenry and then denying credit or taking bailout money and lining their pockets while ALL of us are taking the debt right between the eyes. Iraq. Period. I can go on and on. But all you clowns can yell is ACORN. The blatant attacks on the President, the government, individuals, veiling it with claims that it is about 15,000 other things (that all of a sudden occurred on jan 20th, 2009), and really believing that the rest of world don’t see that this isn’t about race. In the words of that broadcasting genius, Bob Uecker, “Swing and a miss…….” Let’s have real debate about why you don’t want a program that will allow you to keep more money in YOUR pocket and remove the insurance carriers from being truly between you and your doctor. Let’s have an honest debate about RACE in this country. Let’s start being a unified America. Let’s take back our country from those entertainers who have NO stake in the future of OUR country. Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and the others make money off your fears. You know its not even in the realm of true, but because of the HATRED and FEAR certain members of our country have, they play to the worst of our society and those that are fearful of the others that feel that way, go along for fear of being identified as a leftist. Incredible. That’s the fringe right version of Freedom. So who’s a Marxist, really?