Posted by
grad_1986 on Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:50:07 PM
We have all seen the movies where men with little or no necks walk into small businesses and talk to owner telling him that they are in the "insurance business". They say it would be in the owners best interest to buy their "insurance" in case "something might happen in the future". This form of racketeering is known as "the shake down". It's wrong and it's illegal. That is of course unless you are from the government (or a lawyer representing the "Disabilities Act").
Our government today is acting much like the mobsters in the movies. Shaking down businesses to make them cooperate with them. For example, government through the "Community Reinvestment Act" (CRA) tells banks that if they want to be able to expand their business or they want to get a "good bank rating" they need to pay money to groups like ACORN or make loans to low income people who may normally be turned down (Hey isn't that how we got into this mess in the first place? ... hmmm.. I guess we don't learn our lessons). Government treats the money in these banks as if it was owned by the banks themselves. But its NOT the banks money! It's OUR money they are playing with.
This racketeering has got to stop. ACORN is nothing more than thick necked mobster arm of the Obama administration and they are using the CRA as a way to get around the halt of direct funding by the federal government. This group needs to be shut down immediately and our government needs to stop acting as "thugs" and start acting as "servants" again.