These things that are none of our business are big business for groups like ACORN.

These things that are none of our business are big business for groups like ACORN.
Carolyn Hileman

I was reading a story on Politics Daily about everyone’s favorite group to talk about ACORN and how at one time they affected good change in poor neighborhoods by agitating the cities to help them. It had a comment in there that did not sit very well with me, “if you care about the poor” supposedly they are the only ones who care about the poor and they are the only ones who have ever or will ever affect change in those neighborhoods, well I for one beg to differ. If you care to help the poor you do not do it by demanding yet another program for them to latch on to, you do not do it by getting them more food stamps, you do it by educating them so that one day they don’t need you or the government anymore.

You go out into those neighborhoods and you teach them, you help them get a GED, you educate them on the perils of drinking and how to get out of abusive relationships, you lift them above that situation you do not allow them to wallow in it with yet one more program designed to keep them a victim. The poor of this country is a great campaign pledge, it is a wonderful way to raise money for these groups, but seek a real solution to the problem, get real. I say that every person in this country has the potential to be ANYTHING they want to be despite their race, creed or culture.

Until we walk into those neighborhoods and give them real vision, real hope we will continue to have those neighborhoods. If you continue to do the same thing, you will continue to get the same results. If you continue to just blindly write those checks you will never see any difference because the people asking for that money have no need to help these people beyond what they already do and that is to get the government to fix the problem. So basically what you are doing is writing a check to an organization that in turn takes your money to demand a new government program that you will have to pay for.

It is about time we got our hands dirty, time for us to put our money where our mouths are, to go out into those neighborhoods that scare us and sit down with those people who need help and start giving them a future. Put an education center in those neighborhoods, where children and parents can go to get help in reading and writing and math, be their guide, lead them out of the depth of depression to a land where they are in charge of their lives and their decisions. They say that the poor will always be around; they say that because no one wants to do anything other than write a check and feel good about them selves. No one wants to sit down with them and teach them things like how to read, how to balance a check book, how to get a GED or a Pale grant, it is none of our business. These things that are none of our business are big business for groups like ACORN.