My view of the world

Using Hurricane Katrina as one of his excuses, President Bush signed an executive order establishing offices of “Faith-Based and Community Initiatives” within a number of federal agencies.
This is from Homeland Security:
(a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish within the Department of Homeland Security a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

(b) The Center shall be supervised by a Director appointed by Secretary. The Secretary shall consult with the Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives prior to making such appointment.

(c) The Department shall provide the Center with appropriate staff, administrative support, and other resources to meet its responsibilities under this order.

Sec. 2. Purpose of Center. The purpose of the Center shall be to coordinate agency efforts to eliminate regulatory, contracting, and other programmatic obstacles to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the provision of social and community services.

Our President is an Evangelical, this department was established in 2001 as part of a plan to circumvent the separation of church and state as provided by the Constitution.
This is just the way the current administration thinks.

Anyone who thinks there should be no clearly defined separation should take a good look at the middle east, the nut cases like the ones who flew those planes into the Trade Center, put religion first and are firmly convinced that what they are doing is right, in the name of “God.”

From my perspective, as long as we have religious folks in congress, it is inevitable that we will have a certain amount of that view point creep in and as long as they stick to the 10 commandments everything will be fine…. Oh wait, we’re talking about politicians, scratch the commandments. And the only golden rule they understand is the political golden rule, whoever has the gold makes the rules.

My biggest bitch, is that this creates yet another bureaucracy, where the friends and family plan can keep idiots from actually having to work for a living, while paying them a large salary and providing better benifits than most of us could ever hope for, all at the taxpayers expense.
Also remember, that Bush backed that loser that ran FEMA, you know, that outfit that couldn’t even deliver ice and that still haven’t gotten all the trailers in place.