The door swings both ways Bertha!

"[Bertha] Lewis said many conservatives have used the videos to act on a longstanding grudge against Acorn. “I think you make some powerful enemies…when you organize poor people to have power,” she said. Washington Wire, WSJ The left gets very nervous when their schemes to keep the poor in their grasp is loosened, and they'll come out with all guns firing, even in no firearms cities. The most recent example of McCarthyism we have has been during the Obama Congress when they hauled people in to ridicule and threaten them for doing their jobs and making too much money. Bertha says ACORN can survive without government grants, and I say good for you. Go for it! I think all non-profits, right, left, center, and religious, ought to stop taking government money to run day care centers, foreclosure workshops, AIDS clinics, women empowerment programs, children's sporting events, "think tanks," tutoring for immigrants, races for disease of the week, and any number of do-gooder programs that are politically or religiously slanted and ultimately dance to the government's wishes. Let's get the government out of our cupboards, churches, sporting events, and arts organizations and make those boards, trustees and CEOs earn their own money and stop using ours.