And the shame of it is, that these programs were originally designed with people like you and me in mind. A helping hand in a pinch, so to speak.
I sat in the back room of "advocacy" groups and saw first hand the blatant attempts to design the programs for the poverty pimps. The first time I saw it was when Sen Chuck Percy and his staff sat in the back room of 1109 N. Ashland and cynically deisgned a couple sections of the housing law ... 221(d)3...221(d)4... etc with the express purpose of empowering the poverty pimps.
Then, in the '70's it was the NHITC competing with Hillary's ACORN to come up with the best "community organization friendly" programs. Then it was Msgr Geno Baroni designing programs for partnerships between us Taxpayers and Campaign For Human Development of the Catholic Church.
BTW. That was not a faith based initiative because there was no faith in the Catholic CHD.