The Government Accounting Office studied government funding for Faith-Based Organizations at five agencies. A report on the study is linked to in the title to this posting. From there, you can download the 89 page GAO report if you wish.So is the Administration monitoring the work of FBOs to determine whether taxpayer money is funding proselytizing? Are the efforts of FBOs working? The answer to both questions is, of course, no.Rep. Pete Stark, D-CA, said “The Bush administration has failed to develop standards to verify that faith-based organizations aren’t using federal funds to pay for inherently religious activity or to provide services on the basis of religion.” I almost lost my lunch when I read that the President issued Executive Order 13397 on March 7, 2006 to create a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in the Department of Homeland Security. Apparently in the war against terrorism on the home front, we don’t have a prayer so the President is giving Xians money to provide us with one.Peter Nuhn,bomb thrower extraordinaire
The U.S. is bankrupt, exactly. Just read the news and you see that Russia has paid off its debt from Soviet times.
Remember when Clinton had a budget surplus and a program to eliminate the U.S. debt by about 2010.
Gee, what went wrong? And now the Russians are more fiscally responsible than the Republicans!!
I read somewhere – can’t remember where – that China “loans” the U.S. some 3 billion dollars per day to keep our economy afloat. Anyone else heard this figure before?
During the cold war, I wonder what people would have thought if the U.S. had to barrow that kind of money from a communist country because the party in charge was sooooo fiscally irresponsible?
F%#$ing idiots!
DVanWechel i have heard the same figure.i just hope some patriots get elected and start turning things around.as for the current crowd they are not idiots they are crooks.