Digby: Giving Them A Zero

Reason #678 why a modern democracy should have a secular government. Here's an excerpt from David Kuo's book:

While the conferences were being birthed, we were also figuring out what to do with the Compassion Capital Fund. Promised originally at $200 million per year then cut in early 2001 to $100 million, and then again to $30 million, it was only faith-based money we had to distribute [even though $8 billion of new money had originally been promised].