Foreclosures have Brought Together ACORN and Democrats Once More
Foreclosures have once more brought together Obama and ACORN. Immediately after the signing of the trillion dollars bill in Denver Obama kicked off New Raw Deal – a jumbo-sized mortgage plan that will force lenders to modify loans and refinance. The initial cost stretches from $50 billion to $100 billion. This is on top of $50 billion in the stimulus bill to help those homeowners who are underwater. Another $2 billion is for “Neighborhood Stabilization” for dealing with vacant foreclosed houses.
This bailing out of bad borrowers has brought together old buddies – the Democrats and ACORN. The latter are kick starting a new campaign known as Home Savers. It has a radical leftist colour to it. Shock troopers will be out on the streets doing the bullying while the organizers in chief of the community will keep their hands clean.
The new strategy by ACORN will take the form of civil disobedience. The homeowners facing foreclosures will refuse to move out. In some instances they will forcibly return. ACORN volunteers will squat in the houses until a satisfactory, comprehensive solution materializes.
The infantry of ACORN funded by taxpayers money will shout, pound fists and fix themselves to buildings with chains. They will lock the doors and indulge in illegal behaviour until their demands are met. The move has all the ingredients for onset of anarchy.
Louis Beverly of the ACORN branch in Baltimore argues, “After you’ve used all your legal options, your last resort is civil disobedience. We’re talking about families who have been in their homes 20 or 30 years. People who are assets in the community, who look out for the elderly, who have community associations, and these are the people being kicked out of the community.”
While there is sympathy for those who cannot pay their bills this tactics will not solve the problem just like artificial propping up of the real estate market has not worked. The corporations that have failed deserve to fail. So too foolish and greedy borrowers who had an important role to play in the mess deserve the desserts.
The teams of ACORN ready to take on the law are mostly unemployed or full time workers of the organization. The taxpayer funds them. They are encouraged by Democrat Mercy Kaptur of Ohio who had thundered, “Stay in your homes. If the American people, anybody out there is being foreclosed, don’t leave.”
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