Republican shell game

Critics also say that by highlighting the grants to faith-based groups, the administration is distorting the overall funding picture. Bush is "cooking the numbers" and that while more money is going to faith-based groups, less is going to secular groups. "There is no new money for the poor," he says. "People are told about increases in spending for faith-based groups, but not told about cuts in other programs."

Now instead of money they have raised, "faith based" groups are spending your tax dollars in their charity programs and using their fund raising for parties and other in-house activities,coupled with cuts in federal spending,it is a net dencrease to the poor.