Are we funding the leftist agenda?

Posted by Dobrien 7 years ago to Education
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The $17 billion Bank of America deal gave the bank “extra credit” if it donated $100 million or more to activist groups approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The list included UnidosUS, which advocates for illegal immigrants; the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a left-leaning housing lobbyist group; Operation Hope, which pushes banks to lend to unqualified mortgage applicants in Los Angeles; and the Mutual Housing Association of New York, a spinoff of the controversial community-organizing group ACORN.

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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Feel free to put as much time and effort you want for those endeavors. Your choice . I'll decide who I want to support. Problamo solved .
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Everyone with a "social conscience" should be free to voluntarily make donations of what they have earned.
    They should never have the power to take from others who have not voluntarily offered what they have earned.
    So you donate your production to what you choose, and I will donate (or not donate) my production as I choose.
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  • Posted by 834 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Money for social housing always makes sense. Ethnic weighting and quotas doesnt. I'd rather the money had gone on building decent low rent housing than for 'activists'. How about helping the poor for real instead of pocketing the money and using nice cheap words asking for more money?
    I have a social conscience. I just expect money to buy something actually tangible that might actually do some good.
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  • Posted by 834 7 years ago
    Yes you probably are funding it but not much. Pennies really per person.
    I looked up the organisation. I would like to say they do good community work. I'm all for public donations for groups that speak up for the disadvantaged. My issue is I struggled to see what if anything unidosus does. It appears they exist to exist and their Wikipedia page bolstered that opinion. Who exactly except the group actually benefits from the funding? What injustices have they uncovered? Who have they helped? Very woolly stuff tbh.
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  • Posted by exceller 7 years ago
    Of course.

    And Sessions will do nothing.

    I still would like to see ANY results of the several "investigations" he allegedly undertaken against corruption of the left.

    Trump made a grave mistake appointing him.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years ago
    In a word, yes.
    We have been for decades.
    How many billions are wasted on socialist propaganda, and on disinformation about free markets and individual liberty in public schools?
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  • Posted by Solver 7 years ago
    The primary fuel for leftist expansion is that which is taken from those who earned it.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years ago
    Not wittingly...but they sure are having Fun-ding-ing our money right out of our wallets,
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