[Mavdog]

Originally Posted by 92bDad

So in regards to ACORN, you are saying that ACORN is NOT responsible for the employee's that ACORN hired.

they were not employees, they were contract workers.

You talk about ACORN wanting to get all the qualified voters registered...when is the last time we have seen ACORN enter into afluent, educated, business complex' to ensure that these people where all registered? Why does it appear that ACORN is only going after those who are of lower means within this society? Why does ACORN appear to be going after those to promote Class Wars rather than having integrity and promote voter registration to all?

the lower income are the ones who traditionally were denied the opportunity to register and to vote. those were the ones who had poll taxes thrust as barriers, etc. these are where the highest rates of non-regiatered people are at. it is only logical that these would be the groups who are targeted for registration.

as for "class wars", well, that is not the goal.

Why did ACORN push banks to give out loans to unqualified individuals? Often times bringing on negative publicity and even the prospect of legal action to banks who wanted to maitain a FINANCIAL standard around issuing loans?

you are incorrect, acorn pushed banks to lend in areas of lower income people. as for if these were "unqualified", that was up to the bank to determine, and acorn NEVER forced banks to lend to people who were unqualified...unless you want to argue that all lower income people are unqualified. are you?

there was a long tradition of redlining by banks that suppressed economic development in those areas. acorn was aggressive in stopping the redlining. do you know what redlining is?

second, banks and other mortgage lenders wanted to give these loans to credit risk borrowers, they made more money in doing so. no one forced lenders to make these sub-prime loans, lenders did so because it was very, very profiable, and they could sell these loans.