It's Payback Time!
By NYBri, 2006-03-10 10:00:53
Section: Frontal Lobe
The White House is paying down its political debt to
the religious right (which is neither, by the way) and
using your tax dollars to do it. ABC News says:
Religious Charities Get More Federal Money
WASHINGTON Mar 9, 2006 (AP)--
The Bush administration says it is making steady
progress in steering more federal taxpayer dollars
to religious charities. In the budget year that ended
Sept. 30, religious charities received $2.15
billion in federal grants to administer a range of
social service programs for the needy. That
represented 10.9 percent of the total grants from
the seven federal agencies such charities were
eligible to apply to in fiscal 2005, according to a
White House report obtained by The Associated
Press.
-snip- Critics take issue with the president's
insistence that religious charities that receive
taxpayer dollars could retain the right to hire and
fire based on religion. Critics also have said Bush's
initiative is designed mostly as a political tool,
since the plan is popular with religious leaders
who are influential in the Republican Party and
are a core base of support for Bush. And he's
doing it on his own...like everything else he does.
After Congress balked at legislation, Bush began
using executive orders and regulations to accomplish
his goal. Nice to know your tax dollars are going into
the collection plate.
http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/3/10/10053/1249
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The Bush Regime: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be
the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
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SCOTT MCCLELLAN - arrested for lewd behavior after witnesses report him
masturbating in a movie theatre during "Brokeback Mountain."
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