That's an interesting article, dte. I've often wondered just why ACORN has been such a bugbear for the right, and gets the troops so riled. I used to think it was racism, but this line really was illuminating for me:
One of the reasons the group was created was to allow ACORN to apply its corporate shakedown techniques against Western corporations as they expand into rapidly developing markets such as India.
It explains a lot—it's what you guys see as class warfare. Thanks for posting that as it adds to my grasp of the conservative mindset(shaky at best.)
To me it looks like your establishment needs to keep the ACORN monster alive even after death. Your rightie pimpster lops off one head, and another one grows back—in a foreign country no less. Scary stuff, and effective, I'm sure.
What does amaze me is that stuff like this is seen as an 'in your face" outraged negative:
Its website declares that since 2006 it has “built key relationships with leadership of political parties, trade unions, hawkers and farmers’ groups, peoples’ movements and the media,” along with “community organizations, trade unions, peoples’ movements and [non-governmental organizations], thus engaging progressively in poverty alleviation and urban development.”
God forbid there be poverty alleviation and urban development in a country with
the 11th largest GDP in the world and the 139th per capita income.($1134.) God forbid the people who are providing the labor for the 11th largest GDP get reasonable compensation and living conditions out of it. (But we don't want to ruin a huge cheap labor resource for US corporations, of course.)
And that's the first time I've heard Nehru dissed as a crazed leftist radical, btw. "Socialism" is, contrary to some opinion, not a dirty word everywhere, you know.
Edit: If I'm off-base on the class warfare thing, please straighten me out.
