The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

innerSpaceman · 09-18-2009, 08:28 AM

Sorry to go back to ACORN for a moment, but to respond to sceagles ... I heard one of the tapes, and yes - technically - it could be called lending assistance (by giving sage loophole tax advice that any H&R Block would also give, and thus be guilty of "fraud") to people involved in illegal activities ... which I daresay is a good chunk of the people ACORN serves, aka poor people. I love how we shoehorn desperately poor people into lives of crime (underage Guatemalan girls, as but one example), but then can't do anything to assist them lest we be accomplices in crime. Lovely Catch-22. And, oh the outrage of the ruling class! How appropriate.

This is not to say that ACORN didn't get caught with its pants down doing something absolutely inappropriate. But "outrageous?" Pu-fvcking-lease.

09-18-2009, 08:28 AM	#11
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Sorry to go back to ACORN for a moment, but to respond to sceagles ... I heard one of the tapes, and yes - technically - it could be called lending assistance (by giving sage loophole tax advice that any H&R Block would also give, and thus be guilty of "fraud") to people involved in illegal activities ... which I daresay is a good chunk of the people ACORN serves, aka poor people. I love how we shoehorn desperately poor people into lives of crime (underage Guatemalan girls, as but one example), but then can't do anything to assist them lest we be accomplices in crime. Lovely Catch-22. And, oh the outrage of the ruling class! How appropriate. This is not to say that ACORN didn't get caught with its pants down doing something absolutely inappropriate. But "outrageous?" Pu-fvcking-lease.
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