Family Research Council ("food stamps feed animals") received 6 million in taxpayer dollars

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http://americanindependent.com/188341/family-research-council-decries-government-spending-while-affiliates-take-in-millions#more-188341

Family Research Council decries government spending while affiliates take in millions

by Andy Birkey | 08.19.11 | 2:05 pm

The Family Research Council, a religious-right outfit some watchdog organizations have called an anti-gay hate group, has recently become quite vocal in its opposition to government spending and has called for drastic cuts to social programs. But a survey by The American Independent shows that FRC’s state-based affiliates, called family policy councils, have raked in nearly $6 million in state and federal funds over the last five years to work on their own social programming goals.

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The group opposes an increase in tax revenues, especially allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire. The group has repeatedly decried “government waste.” And earlier this week in a “memo the movement,” the group launched an effort to pressure the “Super Committee,” a group of Congress members charged with reducing the federal deficit to cut programs instead of enacting “job-killing tax increases.”

But the group’s affiliates have raked in government funds for controversial programs such as abstinence-only until marriage and healthy-marriage initiatives over the past decade, state and federal records show.

The Family Action Council of Tennessee received $10,000 from the state of Tennessee to host anti-pornography workshop in 2008. FACT supports cutting government spending. They also insinuate that the poor should pay more. “It seems to me that a major problem in Washington is that right at 50 percent of Americans no longer pay federal taxes,” wrote the group’s head David Fowler.

[Vincardog]

1. Can I get $10,000 for a seminar on the benefits to funding a healthy citizenry?

[Bluzmann57]

2. It's not even that easy to get food stamps

And these rw assholes want to abolish them altogether?
True story-In 1996, the company I worked for decided to close down the place I was working. Since I was a long time employee and the place was Unionized, I got a decent severance package. Around a week after the plant officially shut down, I went to apply for food stamps and was turned down, mainly because they said I had too much money in the bank. I mentioned this to a few people mainly because I was irritated and a couple of them said, "Well it's because you're not black and have a bunch of kids. If you were a (n word), and had 5 or 6 kids, you'd have them." I no longer see those people, but that's not really the point of this rambling story. The point I'm trying to make is that in Iowa, it isn't all that easy to get food stamps and I suspect it's like that in other states as well. Therefore it seems that only the extremely desperate can get food stamps and righties even want them cut off. So all I can really say is fuck you "family" research council.

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3. I second that fuck you to the FRC. nt