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Originally Posted by Laker14
Well, by "due process" I mean that there are steps that are taken in the process of deciding if funding will be continued. I take the legislation to mean that funding isn't to be withdrawn automatically, just because of investigation or indictment.
You say there is enough smoke to justify suspicion, and I agree. The question is whether smoke and suspicion are enough to justify pulling the funding.
Any funding is subject to being cancelled. But if Lockheed had funding and some employees were being indicted for fraud, the entire program would not necessarily lose funding at the first smell of smoke, and fire and suspicion.
I'm not a big fan of ACORN, and I expect some of these allegations to hold up. Then, depending upon how rampant the practice was, compared to it's legitimate agenda, funding should be re-examined for it's appropriateness.
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Laker,
I think we are talking past each other here. My point is that Congress can cancel funding for anything for any reason. Fraud can cause congress to look more critically at what is being funded, however Congress funds (or should fund) only those programs that “…establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”
I do not see the funding of ACORN, with its apparently widespread voter registration fraud does anything but undermine the idea of securing the blessing of liberty. Consequently, until the truth is uncovered and necessary steps taken to ensure that such actions cannot happen again, I feel that Congress should terminate any taxpayer funds going to that organization. Just my humble opinion.