Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Tax money sink hole

This is probably not a lot of money considering the national deficit, but there are thousands of programs like this one.  I’d just been reading through a $25 million ArtPlace article when I noticed this one:

“U.S. Department of Justice: Launching a New Place-Based, Community Oriented Crime and Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative

The Department of Justice is looking for a fellow to help support the development and launch of a new place-based, community oriented program that is part of the White House’s Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative (NRI) and is being implemented in collaboration with the Departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development. The fellowship will be located in the Bureau of Justice Assistance, whose mission is to provide leadership and services in grant administration and criminal justice policy development to support local, state, and tribal justice strategies to achieve safer communities. The fellow will work on several aspects of this project, including the site selection process for the first round of the Building Neighborhood Capacity program. The fellow will support coordination with the other partners in NRI and assist in other assessment of data and resources to support the program coordination and selection processes.” Link

I have no idea what a place-based community oriented crime and neighborhood revitalization initiative is, but I’m pretty sure justice won't include the arrest or impeachment of Eric Holder for Fast and Furious or looking into arresting the New Black Panthers who are threatening Floridians. This really sounds like an ad for ACORN with fancy gummit talk.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Murray sez:
One of many problems that I have with the Obama administration is that when considering all the destructive programs they have initiated, I am immediately suspicious of anything new they do. There is usually a hidden agenda behind most of the fancy names they come up with that disguise the true purpose.

Norma said...

These kinds of grants have been available for many years, but this one in my guess has ACORN or one of its renamed entities stamped all over it.