According to the Associate Press yesterday, posted at the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court has refused to hear a request for overturning the ban on federal funding to ACORN.
"The high court on Friday refused to throw out a decision by the federal appellate court in New York City. That court had decided to freeze a judge's determination that Congress acted unconstitutionally in yanking the group's funding."
Aside from the money-saving aspect of this, I think ACORN should be denied funding. The federal government has been extremely lax in its oversight of the money it gives out to all organizations, and it is time to reevaluate all of this kind of spending. If money given to an organization results in a positive impact on the community, that is one thing. If money given to an organization results in highly paid staff accomplishing very little, that needs to stop.
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