The Dems’ Hidden Soros Slush Fund

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The Dems’ Hidden Soros Slush Fund
Leftist activist groups would be first in line for Obama’s “social investment” seed money.

By Michelle Malkin


The Democratic Party platform is like a bag of pork rinds. You never know what high-fat liberal government morsel you’re gonna get.

Buried in the 94-page document is a noble-sounding proposal to create a “Social Investment Fund Network.” The program would provide federal money to “social entrepreneurs and leading nonprofit organizations [that] are assisting schools, lifting families out of poverty, filling health care gaps, and inspiring others to lead change in their own communities.” The Democratic Party promises to “support these results-oriented innovators” by creating an office to “coordinate government and nonprofit efforts” and then showering “a series of grants” on the chosen groups “to replicate these programs nationwide.”

In practice, this Barack Obama brainchild would serve as a permanent, taxpayer-backed pipeline to Democratic partisan outfits masquerading as public-interest do-gooders. This George Soros Slush Fund would be political payback in spades. Obama owes much of his Chicago political success to financial support from radical, left-wing billionaire and leading “social entrepreneur” Soros. In June 2004, Soros threw a big fundraiser at his New York home for Obama’s Illinois Senate campaign. Soros and family personally chipped in $60,000. In April 2007, Obama was back in New York for a deep-pocketed Manhattan fundraising soiree, with Soros lurking in his shadow.

No doubt with Soros’s approbation (if not advice from the hands-on “progressive” activist or his advisers), Obama fleshed out his Social Investment Fund Network plan last December. In concert with his mandatory volunteerism pitch and $6 billion anti-poverty plan, Obama called for the creation of a “Social Entrepreneurship Agency” to dispense the funds in unspecified amounts. The agency would be a government-supported nonprofit corporation “similar to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” which runs public television. (And we’ve all seen how fair and balanced that lib-dominated, Bill Moyers–boosting private-public enterprise turned out.)

Obama cites the Harlem Children’s Zone, which provides after-school activities and mentors to children in New York, as an example of a program that should be funded. (HCZ’s former senior leader Shawn Dove is now an official at Soros’s Open Society Institute.) The problem with such initiatives, as Mitchell Moss pointed out in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal several years ago, is that these private-public partnerships formed under the guise of economic renewal often become nothing more than fronts that coordinate “an enormous safety net for social services.” Private donations give the illusion of self-help and philanthropic independence, but in reality, the “clients” are never weaned from the teat of the welfare state. They simply learn how to milk it more efficiently.

Even more troubling is how the Democratic Party/Obama plan would siphon untold millions or billions of public tax dollars into the Soros empire without taxpayer recourse. Obama promises “accountability” measures to ensure the money is spent wisely. But who would assess effectiveness of the spending? Why, experts in the social entrepreneurship community, of course. Fox, meet henhouse.


Soros has donated some $5 billion of his fortune to left-wing nonprofit groups through the Open Society Institute — an institution committed to Soros’ militant ideology of toppling the “fascist” tyranny of the United States, which he says must undergo “de-Nazification” in favor of “justice.” The mob at Obama-endorsing MoveOn, purveyors of the “General Betray Us” smear against Commanding General, MNF-I, David Petraeus, is the most notorious Soros-backed political arm. But scores of other activist nonprofits have received Soros funding under the guise of doing nonpartisan “community” or “social justice” work — and it is exactly such leftist activist groups that would be first in line for the Democratic Party/Obama’s “social investment” seed money.

Point in case: ACORN. As I’ve reported before, Obama’s old friends at the Chicago-based nonprofit now take in 40 percent of their revenues from American taxpayers. They raked in tens of millions in federal antipoverty grants while some of their operatives presided over massive voter fraud, and others were implicated in corporate shakedowns and mortgage scams across the country. Soros has donated at least $150,000 to the group, according to Investor’s Business Daily, and “heads a secretive rich-man’s club called ‘Democracy Alliance’ that has doled out $20 million to activist groups like ACORN.”

Once the spigot is turned on, there’s no turning back.

Where are fiscal conservatives on this far-left boondoggle? Well, if you’re wondering why the McCain campaign doesn’t raise hell over this proposed left-wing nonprofit/government pipeline, it’s because McCain himself is a Soros beneficiary. His “Reform Institute,” a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501(c)(3) group focused on campaign-finance reform, was funded by the Soros-funded Open Society Institute and Tides Foundation.

Birds of a Big Government feather flock together — and look out for each other. Watch your wallet.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Without further reading, on the surface it sounds like a tit for tat on the Republican handouts to churches.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

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By Michelle Malkin

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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that's the first thing that jumped out at me too.

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By Michelle Malkin

I have the same reaction when YOU post

Now a point. Two posts and nothing resembling a cognitive reply

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Let's suppose, for the sake of drunken conversation, that it's true.
Big deal.
Shocking headline: "Politics revealed to be all about the money!"
What a fucking surprise.
The GOP has Old Money and Corporate Money. The Dems have Soros's money. Boy, is this revelation gonna influence a lot of swing votes.

And now, back to beach volleyball in Beijing.

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By Michelle Malkin

I have the same reaction when YOU post

Now a point. Two posts and nothing resembling a cognitive reply

Why? It's just another saga of your 'my team is better than your team' stuff.

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"O brave new world that has such people in it".

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Ok, I read the name of the author and quit. Then I decided that wasn't fair, even if she's just a hack. So I read the first sentence. Then I quit reading again because it was obviously going to be a hack piece written by a hack. Started again.....skim.....skim....skim.....blah blah blah...maybe there's something there worth reading but I'm obviously going to have to go to different source.....Ooo...McCain slam too. So her concern is over us getting fleeced by the government? Where was she when we were throwing $millions$ in cash out of the back of a truck?

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Here's one one of her co-workers at FoxNews said about Michelle Malkin;

"Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life," he says. "She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her."

That co-worker was . . . Geraldo Rivera.

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From reading the Op-Ed, the proposed policy sounds more akin to a domestic version of Millennium Challenge Account than the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

VR/Marg

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
Tibetan Buddhist saying

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Look out SC! Marg has a golden lasso!!!

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Here's one one of her co-workers at FoxNews said about Michelle Malkin;

"Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life," he says. "She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her."

That co-worker was . . . Geraldo Rivera.

A hard left liberal spewing hate and willing to commit violence on someone that disagrees with them?

Quelle surprise...

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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Here's one one of her co-workers at FoxNews said about Michelle Malkin;

"Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life," he says. "She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her."

That co-worker was . . . Geraldo Rivera.

A hard left liberal spewing hate and willing to commit violence on someone that disagrees with them?

Quelle surprise...

Geraldo Rivera is a "hard left liberal"?!?

http://www.foxnews.com/geraldo/

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A hard left liberal spewing hate and willing to commit violence on someone that disagrees with them?

Quelle surprise...

Hey man, it's not like he drew a map on the ground showing her enemies where she was.
Good thing Malkin didn't piss off Ann Coulter, her days would be numbered

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it doesn't matter who said it. i get the distinct impression from watching her commentary that she's a vile and hatefull person. listening to her is just like listening to air america, just swap republican for democrat and conservative for liberal and you have the exact same thing. she just seems like a nasty person.

"Your scrotum is quite nice" - Skymama
www.kjandmegan.com

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Geraldo Rivera is a "hard left liberal"?!?

http://www.foxnews.com/geraldo/

Nowadays, Pat Buchanan is a "lib".

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Here's one one of her co-workers at FoxNews said about Michelle Malkin;

"Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life," he says. "She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her."

That co-worker was . . . Geraldo Rivera.

A hard left liberal spewing hate and willing to commit violence on someone that disagrees with them?

Quelle surprise...

Geraldo Rivera is a "hard left liberal"?!?

http://www.foxnews.com/geraldo/

If you DIDN'T know that, you really DON'T need to be posting in political threads in here.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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Here's one one of her co-workers at FoxNews said about Michelle Malkin;

"Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life," he says. "She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her."

That co-worker was . . . Geraldo Rivera.

A hard left liberal spewing hate and willing to commit violence on someone that disagrees with them?

Quelle surprise...

I wouldn't consider spitting to be "violence" per se, more like a pre-cursor. And as an example of hatred from the right, maybe she'd use the excuse to bust his nose with a chair.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

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Here's one one of her co-workers at FoxNews said about Michelle Malkin;

"Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life," he says. "She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her."

That co-worker was . . . Geraldo Rivera.

A hard left liberal spewing hate and willing to commit violence on someone that disagrees with them?

Quelle surprise...

I wouldn't consider spitting to be "violence" per se, more like a pre-cursor. And as an example of hatred from the right, maybe she'd use the excuse to bust his nose with a chair.

Blues,
Dave

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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Here's one one of her co-workers at FoxNews said about Michelle Malkin;

"Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life," he says. "She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her."

That co-worker was . . . Geraldo Rivera.

A hard left liberal spewing hate and willing to commit violence on someone that disagrees with them?

Quelle surprise...

Geraldo Rivera is a "hard left liberal"?!?

http://www.foxnews.com/geraldo/

If you DIDN'T know that, you really DON'T need to be posting in political threads in here.

He's not left of anyone except maybe O'Reilly. WTF are you talking about? Seriously, click on the link I provided and tell me again what about his show you think is "left".

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I really love this site

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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He's not left of anyone except maybe O'Reilly. WTF are you talking about? Seriously, click on the link I provided and tell me again what about his show you think is "left".

Maybe you should read his blog.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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I really love this site

No, I mis-posted......

I really love most of the people on this site.


And to "try" and prove it, I would pay for lift tickets for one load of 14 (one load alll together) OK, I would do 10 if 14 could not make it at the same time, if you all would show up a Vinton Iowa on the same day, ( and I would help to get all of you on the same load. ONE load) then we can have a day of jumping. The biggest rule is you have to have a post in Speakers Corner between Aug1st of this year (2008) to today.

If someone gets it together, email me the date, I will be there! Even kallend, no, especially kallend!
This offer is valid until Aug 1 2009.

We may not agree on much here but, you are all skydivers. That means you are all good people.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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I really love this site

No, I mis-posted......

I really love most of the people on this site.


And to "try" and prove it, I would pay for lift tickets for one load of 14 (one load alll together) OK, I would do 10 if 14 could not make it at the same time, if you all would show up a Vinton Iowa on the same day, ( and I would help to get all of you on the same load. ONE load) then we can have a day of jumping. The biggest rule is you have to have a post in Speakers Corner between Aug1st of this year (2008) to today.

If someone gets it together, email me the date, I will be there! Even kallend, no, especially kallend!
This offer is valid until Aug 1 2009.

We may not agree on much here but, you are all skydivers. That means you are all good people.

The libs all love you Marc, because you make them** look really smart.
Now, are you organizing the event or waiting for someone else to do it?

** not including myself in that group, 'cos I'm dead center, just like mnealtx.

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He's not left of anyone except maybe O'Reilly. WTF are you talking about? Seriously, click on the link I provided and tell me again what about his show you think is "left".

Maybe you should read his blog.

He has exactly ONE issue that is vaguely "left"; he's pro-immigrant. Which is only sort of understandable if you consider what he considers to be his ethnicity.

However, YOU should really become more familiar with his body of work. He is a Democrat basher & ambush "journalist" from way back. He has recently gone to town over the Edwards thing.

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