ACORN is reaping what it sows, these days. By that, I mean that the New-Orleans-based organization has ran into nothing but trouble. First, they got caught red-handed on four videos as ACORN employees offered tax evasion advice to a fake “pimp and prostitute”. As a result of those videos, the Census Bureau cut ties with the group.

Next came when the House and Senate voted unanimously to cut all Federal funding from ACORN. But now it gets even worse as the Internal Revenue Service has decided to disassociate themselves with the association. On Wednesday, the IRS said that it would no longer include ACORN in its list of volunteer organizations who offer free tax assistance.

I cannot, for the life of me, guess what is coming next except the long-overdue investigation and audit of ACORN. How in-depth it will be and when it will take place is up for speculation right now, but as soon as possible works for me.

This just in, folks. The Census Bureau has officially dropped the organization ACORN as the contractor of record for conducting the 2010 U.S. Census. Apparently, a second tape has come on the scene that is similar to the one that was shot in Baltimore, MD.

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Friday found ACORN, the organization that has been accused of voter registration fraud, without a big job. Specifically, the Census Bureau severed ties with them earlier today.

In the decision made by the Census’ director Robert Groves, he added:

“It is clear that ACORN’s affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 census efforts.”

As we all already know, ACORN has been the subject of scorn within the GOP – and reasonable folks such as you and I – with the allegations of voter registration fraud running rampant (including an episode of voter registration shenanigans in Miami-Dade County, FL), along with a pair of tapes coming from ACORN offices in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

In both instances (Baltimore and Washington, D.C.), employees of ACORN advised individuals on prostitution matters and ways to circumvent tax laws. As a result, a pair of employees from each office were fired, subsequently leading the Census Bureau to severing ties with the controversial organization.

I suppose it was a matter of time before something of this magnitude would have happened to ACORN; after all, look at the group’s track record. Accusations of voter registration fraud, attempting to apply “economic justice” to the gullible masses and advising unsuspecting individuals on how to break tax laws – and who’s to say that they haven’t done even more reprehensible acts that have not ben reported?

The next logical step is for Congress to throughly – and I do mean thoroughly – investigate ACORN, from top to bottom. Analyze their books, comb their records, whatever is necessary. And once it is found that ACORN is not above board, the federal government needs to cease sending our money to this organization. Should Congress choose to not take this action, then it will be time to boot out all legislators who are up for re-election in 2010.

To prove once again that the Obama administration is always striving to be all things to all people, the U.S. Census Bureau wants the 2010 count to report the number of same-sex married couples currently in the United States.

But there is a stumbling block, of sorts – the software the Census Bureau utilizes would have to be tweaked so as not to declassify these couples into what can be described as unmarried partners.  Personally, I hope they are not able to tweak the software to reflect the change.  And to be honest with you here, I do not think that these same-sex marriages deserve to be recognized in the same breath as normal marriages already are.

I realize that these gay couples have to be counted in the Census’ next count in 2010; however, my bone of contention here is when is it that they deserve the same rights as normal married couples?  I will assume that the Census Bureau wants to get this corrected as soon as humanly possible for the Obama administration as the same-sex couples could very well be considered a minor “voting bloc” for the Administration.  Hence the urgency.