{"id":1351,"date":"2009-11-12T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2009-11-12T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T14:02:43","slug":"the_word_that_comes_to_mind_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"The Word That Comes To Mind Is &#8220;Chutzpah&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/brooklyn\/acorn_sues_congress_for_cutting_jtDCJ2roJ3OuwsSZpc3QKJ\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;notes that the Association of Community Organizations for&nbsp;Reform Now (ACORN) is suing the federal government for cutting off their funds following the video scandal involving trafficking in the underage sex trade.&nbsp; ACORN claims that it was unfair of the government to cut off funds &#8220;without an investigation&#8221;, and according to the Post &#8220;has asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to immediately reinstate the funding to its housing program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The suit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, claims poor people will suffer due to the lack of funding.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"intext_area narrow\" id=\"intext_area_middle\"><em><\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;ACORN, which is based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, has received approximately $53 million in federal aid since 1994.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I guess the question I have is, &#8220;How many poor people have actually been helped by that $53 million in federal aid, and how much of it has used in ways the taxpayers would not approve of?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Anyway, lets see what the federal judge in Brooklyn does with this case!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Post&nbsp;notes that the Association of Community Organizations for&nbsp;Reform Now (ACORN) is suing the federal government for cutting off their funds following the video scandal involving trafficking in the underage sex trade.&nbsp; ACORN claims that it was unfair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1351\">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-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}