{"id":1173,"date":"2009-09-12T14:15:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2009-09-12T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:15:05","slug":"some_semigood_news_from_the_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"Some Semi-Good News From The Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the blog at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2009\/09\/census_cutting_ties_with_acorn.asp\">Weekly Standard<\/a>,&nbsp;the US Census has cut its ties with ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now); ACORN will no longer be helping with the US Census in 2010.&nbsp; The Census made its decision after two undercover video tapes surfaced showing ACORN offices in Baltimore and Washington, DC,&nbsp;giving advice to the people making the videos on how to set up a business of underaged prostitution with advice on tax status, getting grants, and avoiding notice by law enforcement.&nbsp; This follows charges against ACORN of illegal voter registration in a number of states during the 2008 elections&#8211;ACORN registered the Dallas Cowboys football team front line to vote in Nevada, and Mickey Mouse was registered to vote in Florida.&nbsp; These are people who obviously do not have a lot of respect for the law.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that ACORN is no longer&nbsp;involved in the Census is good news.&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately, this won&#8217;t be the end of government involvement with ACORN.&nbsp; The stimulus bill includes millions of dollars for community organizing that could conceivably go to ACORN.&nbsp; All of us need to pay close attention to where the stimulus money is going.&nbsp; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recovery.gov\/\">Recovery.gov<\/a>&nbsp;as of September 4, only 93.6 billion dollars of the supposedly 233.76 billion dollars available&nbsp;had been actually paid out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the blog at the Weekly Standard,&nbsp;the US Census has cut its ties with ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now); ACORN will no longer be helping with the US Census in 2010.&nbsp; The Census made its decision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}