ACORN: If only Congress removed funds for corporate crime

I read that Congress has voted to cut federal funding to ACORN . The group received federal funds to help residents prepare income taxes.

If only Congress acted so fast with all the corporate crime that Defense Contractors and KBR, Haliburton-like organizations.

Recent allegations of security contractors running brothels and orgies in Afghanistan did not get much of a response from Senator John Cornyn.

According, CorpWatch, Halliburton paid $382 million in fines to the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the settlement of a controversial KBR gas project in Nigeria in which the company admitted to paying a $180 million bribe to government officials.

What remains for community organizers are lessons. There must be internal controls to prevent stuff like this from happning. ACORN is the largest membership organization in the US and the bigger you get the harder it is to internal police. Nevertheless, there are lessons we can learn and a few bad apples should not plague a whole organization.

My question, with the closing intake on forclusure assistance, who will be taking up the slack in this great service to the poor.