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How Can Bush and Obama both be so Wrong?

Charlene36 Wrote: Sep 24, 2009 5:58 AM
This article and the comments go a long way towards making my case for the destruction of a community center I helped found. The object was to have the community support its own center. Too many new board members lapped up government grants to save themselves the trouble of fund raising in their own community. The Center became a bonanza for a clever grant writing administrator and a cheap day care center for the very people whose children most needed a hint that their own community gave a darn about them. This is pretty much what's wrong with public schools these days. I wish I'd understood why 20 years ago my children's school no longer welcomed parental involvement. That was just about the time teachers became enamoured of union...

When the government injects itself, and public money, into matters of faith, only bad things can happen. When money comes with strings (or in the government's case, ropes) attached, the best wisdom is to turn it down. Losing control of one's motives and one's work is a high price to pay for a bundle of public cash. Given the choice of having my church's soup kitchen cease operations or be forced to accept government funding to survive, I would choose the former. You cannot separate money, mission, and motivation.

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