Anti-ACORN Bill Could De-Fund the Entire Military Industrial Complex!
by Ryan Grim | Huffington Post
September 22, 2009
The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to "any organization" that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.
In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) picked up on the legislative overreach and asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to sift through its database to find which contractors might be caught in the ACORN net.
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Gumman both popped up quickly, with 20 fraud cases between them, and the longer list is a Who's Who of weapons manufacturers and defense contractors.
Full story at the Huffington Post
Grayson is awesome ....
Now if we can only convince him that eliminating the income tax and social spending by the federal government would actually benefit the needy.
This guy, I like, a lot.
He will be a slave to no one, especially his party.
Now if I can only convince the freshman Democrat congressman from my district to follow suit.
WAHOR!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48994
WAHOR!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48994
Why are all these private companies
getting federal money? I thought the de-funding bill was for the grants being handed out by Uncle Sam. If this bill threatens all business the Gov't conducts with EVERYONE, then the entire bill will be defeated and ACORN will continue on it's merry way with our money.
Because it is fascist Public Private Partnerships PPP
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Leave Us Alone and Bring the Troops Home
GlaxoSmithKline and Merck are on that list, with a total of 26
instances of misconduct. As are MIT with 6, Johns Hopkins with 4, Univ. of Chicago with 4, and Univ. of Cali. with 25.
Here's the entire list of 100:
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/
It even includes IBM, Dell, AT&T, GMC, and Fed Ex with 18 alone.
hmm... " Contractor Federal
hmm...
"
Contractor Federal Contract $
(FY2007) Instances of Misconduct
(Since 1995) Misconduct $
(Since 1995)
1. Lockheed Martin $34234.9m 50 $ 577.2m
2. Boeing Company $24304.9m 31 $1561.4m
3. Northrop Grumman $18506.5m 27 $ 790.4m
4. General Dynamics $14687.7m 9 $ 63.2m
5. Raytheon Company $12233.2m 17 $ 475.8m
6. BAE Systems $10119.2m 3 $ 1.3m
7. L-3 Communications $6802.2m 5 $ 41.3m
8. United Technologies Corporation $5874.1m 13 $ 383.0m
9. SAIC $5230.9m 10 $ 14.5m
10. KBR $4872.5m 18 $ 103.0m
11. McKesson $4686.8m 8 $1356.7m
12. Computer Sciences Corporation $4017.4m 5 $ 43.0m
13. Humana $3403.1m 10 $ 129.7m
14. MacAndrews AMG Holdings $3361.7m 0 $ 0.0m
15. Textron, Inc. $3110.8m 9 $ 22.3m
16. Hewlett-Packard Company $2851.3m 4 $ 204.8m
17. General Electric $2824.3m 32 $ 37.4m
18. Government of the United States $2821.6m 0 $ 0.0m
"
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/
The US Gove with 0 instances of misconduct and 0 misconduct $.
Irony is that all the misconduct instances that ocurred was because the government made it possible.
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Don't pop the champagne yet..
The SCOTUS will prudently maintain the status quo when the matter of this bill's interpretation comes before it.
how about
IRS?
"The two weakest arguments for any issue on the House floor are moral and constitutional"
Ron Paul
If this bill covers all the corrupt
organizations, ACORN will have been of some good use after all.
So true!
Won't that be the greatest irony of all... The US of A saved by ACORN.... lol!
Truth exists, and it deserves to be cherished.
Watch how it plays out though... The MIC is the intstrument
of creating debt for the banks. This will never happen.
"Countless people will hate The New World Order and will die protesting against it"- H.G Wells - The New World Order (1939)
"Human beings with love and compassion are some of the most beautiful creatures in the universe... Those without are a plague on us all."
Thanks for posting this michael
I put it on facebook and twitter, did you see my post on an email I got from the House Finance committee I received a few min. ago? "NEW! Barny Franks ststement on ACORN" http://www.dailypaul.com/node/108292
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Then let them be "caught" too.
If they are perpetrating fraud, they get the boot.
To hell with them.
New competitors are good for the blood.