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Friday, February 20, 2009

Stimulus Package Not Helping Charities

Want to study the impact of cow farts on penquins? You've probably got $100 million coming your way thanks to the pork bill signed this week by Barack Obama. Are you a charity that wants to house and clothe the homeless? You were probably left out.

According to this article from The Washington Post, "faith-based charities, which provide an enormous array of private social services to the nation's sick, elderly and poor, are facing unprecedented cutbacks from one of their biggest funders: the government."

Well, when you are throwing around a trillion dollars to the favorites in your good ole boy network of liberal causes, I suppose something has to be cut back.

Read the article here: Government Cutbacks Leave Faith-Based Services Hurting

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