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Vadum: Obama’s Jobs Bill Could Give ‘Un-American’ ACORN $15 Billion To Help Poor People Vote

Matthew Vadum of the American Spectator

A non-existent organization that previously helped poor people “destroy the country” by voting could get up $15 billion in taxpayer money under Obama’s jobs bill, according to conservative columnist Matthew Vadum.

Vadum, who previously wrote that it was “profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country,” writes that a draft version of the jobs bill “makes ACORN, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), and a phalanx of leftist groups that regularly feed at the public trough eligible for funding.”

“Section 261 of the bill provides $15 billion for ‘Project Rebuild.’ Grants would be given to ‘qualified nonprofit organizations, businesses or consortia of eligible entities for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties and for the stabilization of affected neighborhoods,’” Vadum writes.

“Radical groups like ACORN won’t get the whole $15 billion, though, because they will have to compete with state and local governments for the money,” he continues.

This is all, of course, contingent upon the fact that ACORN exists. Which it doesn’t.

Nevertheless, be on the lookout, says Vadum. “Like the T-1000 in “Terminator 2” ACORN can be slowed down but it will just continue to regroup under different names, and operate out of the same offices,” reads the caption on the photo in his story.

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