Posted on 05/15/2016 4:17:17 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Refugee resettlement has become very lucrative for voluntary agencies that now receive government $$$$$. Some 17 private refugee bureaus received about $37 million in government money in FY 2011.
Before taxpayers were tapped, these organizations appeared true to the biblical imperatives to love your neighbor as yourself. Now taxpayer money has skewed the focus and perspective. Rather than maintaining pure motives and focusing on the charitable work, there is a temptation to preserve government funding sources and build organizations with taxpayers monies.
There is a great deal of financial interest vested with increasing the refugees admitted for USA resettlement. More refugees = more free money. Some programs resemble decadent charities that spend inordinately on fund raising and administration rather than actually helping their cause.
Refugee resettlement policy and programs are ripe for auditing and are overdue for congressional scrutiny and reform. Organizations receiving federal monies deserve close assessment. iIt is high time religious refugee bureaus look introspectively. Is it possible to serve both God and money (Luke 16:13). Their efforts have become harmful to their fellow countrymen and communities when they sponsor criminal murderers, rapists, and those who steal American's possessions and American jobs. Churches need to forced back to reliance on private funding and many of the problems will disappear when greed is removed from the equation.
If you took a national survey asking if Americans knew what a VOLAG was, I guarantee you that less than 3% would respond affirmatively.
There are usually plenty of other choices beyond the Dems and Repubs - here is a list of 2012 election results for all the candidates (Romney, you loser, you never even ran to win).
2012 Presidential General Election final vote (with 95% of precincts reported) from Wikipedia and Google Elections:
-Barack Obama (Democratic Party) 65,909,451 51.02%
-Mitt Romney (Republican Party) 60,932,176 47.16%
-Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party) 1,275,950 0.99%
-Jill Stein (Green Party) 469,572 0.36%
-Virgil Goode (Constitution Party) - 122,378 - 0.09%
-Roseanne Barr (Peace & Freedom Party) 67,359 0.05%
-Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) 42,995 0.03%
-Tom Hoefling (Americas Party) 40,609 0.03%
-Jerry Litzel (independent) 12,895 0.01%
-Jeff Boss (independent) 12,895 0.01%
-Randall Terry (independent) 12,895 0.01%
-Merlin Miller (American Third Position Party) 12,895 0.01%
-Jill Reed (Twelve Visions Party) 12,032 0.01%
-Richard Duncan (independent) 12,032 0.01%
We don’t need a third party with Donald!! We just took theirs away from them. > YAHOO!!
Yep. And the religious leaders promoting immigration would be well advised by their parishioners that more money is likely to flow to the collection plates when said parishioners are gainfully employed. And such immigrants can best get assistance through missionary work in their homelands rather than importing them into the United States where their knee-jerk reaction of the majority of them is to vote to make the United States more like the $#*+hole countries they ran away from and where religious liberty is curtailed.
My comment #1 and oddlane’s.. Unfortunately speak to the real issue. It seems its all about the Benjamins and not Jesus Christ.
Church leaders are getting rich!!
Churches could care less about immigrant souls or the harm illegals do to America.
Follow da money.
Just saying that surely there is someone running for POTUS who still believes in the Rule of Law.
To your point - Specific religious charities are getting rich (Catholic, Lutheran, and Baptist charity services to name the big ones along with the Jewish contingency). Pastors have their marching orders to speak positively of ALL immigrants to their congregations. Very dangerous indeed let alone how much $$$$$$$$$ the traitors are making.
This is beyond political solutions now, and Mrs. Schlafly knows it.
Hopefully that person is Donald Trump and he moves very quickly to prove that once he is in the WH.
which brings up the question, will the Reform Party be running a second candidate on the ballot this election year?
It is howlingly funny that Hofer will face the Green Party candidate in the Austrian runoff. The regular ‘conservative’ finished 3rd, and the Social Democrat finished 4th.
Yes, follow the money. I suspect some of the specific titled organizations have little to do with the actual church organizations. They may be front organizations.
I think that this idea or scam may have been prototyped under the Bush administration with brother Jeb in Florida under the guises of prison ministries.
Once they get the money flowing, it pours from FedGov unchecked.
Government + Churches ripping off the taxpayers! Really stinks!
Bttt.
Phyllis Schlafly is a true American treasure.
BUMP!
I want to add to your analyses. These are “Professional” Christians. They are defined as those who take money intended for God. -=- In the name of God. Run away from these people.
The word “church” was not in the Bible until 1611. You probably haven’t known that until just now. That was 1578 years after the Resurrection!! The original text was the Greek word “Ekklesia”. That did not mean “assembly” or “gathering”!!! The word meant “The called out” or believers. The entire concept of a mortgaged building with a man paying his house mortgage from temple tax ( tithing is NOT in the new testament)standing behind a pulpit speaking the sheeple— Is a fraud!! By the way Jesus was crucified for attacking the TEMPLE TAX COLLECTORS!! ( 4 days later!!) Can I have an AMEN??
I see Shafley is back in charge of Eagle Forum. Good for her.
She is 91 years old and still sharp as a tack. I am 67 and I have to use an alarm on my iPhone to tell me when to take my medications. My wife, 3 years my younger, tells me that I am very intelligent, but I am thinking that she might be nuts. ;>)
Amen brother, very well done.
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