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Subject: Taxpayers Fund Activists for Obamacare at United We
Serve
I just ran across a very interesting article by Dana Loesch entitled:
Taxpayer Funded Serve.gov Filtering
Activists to ACORN. What Dana found is that the
government's web site is sponsoring listings for "national service"
opportunities by ACORN. OK, that doesn't seem so strange, since
ACORN is supposed to be a "community service" organization, and that
fits right in with the mandate for that site. However, a closer
look at the list of ACORN opportunities finds one titled
"Healthcare Activist" with the following description:
"Be a health care activist! Help us get the word out about
an upcoming forum discussing the possibilities of health
care reform! Contact us at 520-623-9389. You won't regret
getting involved when you'll be able to say you played a roll
in the creation of a public health insurance plan that was of
quality and affordable to all!"
Dana points out that the question of reimbursement is unclear on this
page, but she found ACORN advertisements on places such as Craigslist
where activists were offered $90/day. Other ACORN service listings
include such things as "community organizing internship",
"neighborhood canvasser", and "tax preparer". After the recent video
exposés, we can imaging the types of "services" provided by these
volunteers.
Sinces ACORN operates with government funds, here is another shining
example of how your own tax dollars are being directly used against
you!
On a lighter note, you can go to serve.gov and type in the keywords
"John Galt" and get about sixty listings for my
Pledge initiative. It looks as though there
is a listing for just about every state including Hawaii. However, I
did notice on the Google map that they provide that Alaska is
conspicuously absent. I guess Sarah Palin is still getting under
their skins after all this time!
And by the way, with so many fantastic opportunities, why haven't any
of you signed up? It's so sad to have zero volunteers. Where's
your public spiritedness? [Yes, of course I'm kidding! :-)]
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