There are two types of people, those who divide people into wicked capitalists and saintly victims, and those who don’t.
The folks at ACORN, a lefty activist group, see only evil capitalists and downtrodden everybody-else.
Columnist Michelle Malkin reports how ACORN champions the cause of homeowners crushed by the credit crunch and housing collapse. Except that some of their poster-child victims are hardly innocent.
A few weeks ago, as a mob cheered and cameras recorded, an ACORN gang broke into a padlocked home in Baltimore. It had been owned by Donna Hanks, expelled when the bank foreclosed. “This is our house now,” ACORN activist Louis Beverly declared, with Donna by his side.
Man of the people, right?
Except that Hanks was not merely hammered by circumstances. She bought the house in 2001 for $87,000, but later refinanced for $270,000 — money she presumably spent. In 2008 the house was sold for less than the new loan but more than twice the 2001 price. In 2006, Hanks declared bankruptcy, but did not comply with the terms of the court. Malkin gives further details of her irresponsibility, but you get the idea.
There are innocent victims hurting, now, in the current financial collapse. But being a borrower rather than a lender tells us nothing by itself. As the antics of ACORN show, either can be the victim.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
2 replies on “Good Guys and Bad Guys”
ACORN is a hate group masked as a community group so as to get federal monies funneled to them legally. Very, very shady and I think they border on an illegal political group. If this happened on the right side of the aisle, this would be protested at the highest levels.
Acorn, when will you learn socialism does not work? It never has, and yet the urge to equally share the wealth without working persists. Give it up already.