Why Don’t Churches Holler? They’re Robbing You

(Before It's News)

by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org

If you’ve ever wondered about the motivating force behind the proclamations that often come from pulpits about how compassionate you should be, and the strength of the exhortations coming from the pulpit and various religiously-named non-profits in an attempt to get you to part with your money, remember one thing: There is a good probability that the church — and those operating under the name of a given faith — has one or more programs like this one already and you already paid for — involuntarily.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that on September 9, 2014, it received documents from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing that the Obama administration paid Baptist Children and Family Services (BCFS) $182,129,786 to provide “basic shelter care” to 2,400 “unaccompanied alien children” (UAC) for four months in 2014. The BCFS budget included charges for $104,215,608 for UACs at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and an additional $77,914,178 for UACs at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Let’s put a number on that.

That’s a total of about $75,000 per kid for a total of four months during this year, or roughly $225,000 annually.

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