Another suggestion for the sequestration budget cutting ax: IDAs

Your tax dollars! IDAs—Individual Development Accounts! What is that?  It’s a fancy name for your tax dollars matching a refugee’s savings.  For every dollar a refugee saves in this program (administered not by a government agency, but laundered through a non-profit), he or she is matched a dollar from the federal treasury.  I am not … Continue reading Another suggestion for the sequestration budget cutting ax: IDAs

Refugee advocates! Just so you know, you are in bed with Grover Norquist and big business

Update October 23rd:  More news on Norquist at Potomac Tea Party Report today, here. This is an article about “amnesty” but it reminds me to remind the human rights gang and you “church” people that you are working side-by-side with big business interests looking for cheap labor (it is not about having a humanitarian heart!) … Continue reading Refugee advocates! Just so you know, you are in bed with Grover Norquist and big business

Come and get it! Free government money for “culturally appropriate” child care

Your tax dollars! We have a sequester.  The federal government is shortly going to lay off large swaths of its workforce, including the military, yet the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is still sending out announcements for applications for micro-enterprise grants to non-profits so they can further distribute your tax dollars to refugee ‘entrepreneurs’ who … Continue reading Come and get it! Free government money for “culturally appropriate” child care