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Quote: The 'other ACORN story' is how little it does with your millions
Washington Examiner, by Mark Tapscott
One of the over-looked angles on the growing ACORN national scandal is how little the far-left activist group actually does with the millions it receives from taxpayers, corporations, and foundations. The group says it provide lots of services for poor people, but a recent NewsBusters post by Tom Blumer exposes the hollow facts behind the claims.
Blumer compiled ACORN claims about its services from the group's web site and from various press accounts, then began applying some simple arithmetic. The results are quite revealing and raise more troubling questions about what ACORN does with its millions:
“Since its inception, according to its Web site, the corporation has assisted more than 45,000 families to become first-time homeowners and has rehabbed more than 850 vacant or abandoned housing units.
“What?
“Even if those totals were for only 5 years instead of 23, that would be 1.57 families per office per week (45,000 divided by 110 cities divided by 5 years divided by 52). It seems pretty obvious that the real number is a lot lower than 1.57. Again assuming only 5 years instead of 23, the rehabs are less than 1.6 per city per full year (850 divided by 110 divided by 5). Habitat for Humanity (this is a huge understatement) runs circles around that.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini ... 58702.html
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