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Obama’s Ex-Church Has Won $15M in Federal Grant Money
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Posted on 06/02/2008 6:25:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama’s Ex-Church Has Won $15M in Federal Grant Money by FOXNews.com Monday, June 2, 2008

By Jeff Goldblatt

Across America seven days a week, parents drop their kids at day care centers, which are supported by funding from the federal government.

But what makes one facility noteworthy in inner city Chicago is that it’s run by Trinity United Church of Christ. It’s the same church whose former head pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, drew widespread scrutiny after he cursed the U.S. government for its treatment of African-Americans.

FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has received at least $15 million in grants from the federal government — in other words, taxpayer money.

Records show this money supported a variety of outreach: everything from low income housing to nutritional programs for needy kids to money for HIV/AIDS education. Wright blames the government for intentionally infecting the African-American community with that deadly virus.

(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: faithbased; federalspending; fundingtheleft; grants; jeremiahwright; obama; religiousleft; revwright; trinityucc; wright
Huh?
1 posted on 06/02/2008 6:25:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Well G*D Da**


2 posted on 06/02/2008 6:26:59 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Sub-Driver

Talk about adding insult to injury, I am helping finance this RACIST POS (WRIGHT)? Damn, just when you think things cant get any stranger.


3 posted on 06/02/2008 6:29:17 PM PDT by Snurple
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To: Sub-Driver

“Records show this money supported”

The racist wright’s mansion...


4 posted on 06/02/2008 6:30:08 PM PDT by bluerose (Press "1" if you speak English. "Press "2" to disconnect until you can.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Wha-choo talkin’ bout?!


5 posted on 06/02/2008 6:30:27 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Trinity and its fellow liberals are the like the spoiled brats who disrespect their parents, all the while holding their hands out.


6 posted on 06/02/2008 6:31:53 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Sub-Driver

END EAR MARKS
DEFUND THE LEFT and RACISTS


7 posted on 06/02/2008 6:33:22 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Sub-Driver

From the same country he D****d?????


8 posted on 06/02/2008 6:34:13 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: Sub-Driver
FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has received at least $15 million in grants from the federal government — in other words, taxpayer money.

Mmmm... I wonder how much of that $$ was 'allocated' to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright mansion? Dem chickens need a good fine coop when they come home to roost ay Rev?

9 posted on 06/02/2008 6:34:52 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Snurple

$15 million over 15 years is probably small stuff. That’s the awful thing about it...


10 posted on 06/02/2008 6:35:59 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Typical liberal....beetch, moan, complain and rant against social injustices all the while enjoying the riches and benefits of a God blessed nation. The only USA leftists I admire are the ones who ‘flee USA oppression’ and move to Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea and Somalia. Loud mouthed leftist liars and hypocrites are a pox on this nation!


11 posted on 06/02/2008 6:41:20 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Sub-Driver

Biting the hand that feeds them. Arrogant beggars and by that I mean that church’s racist congregation. They whooped and hollered at Wright’s rants and same for that wacked out priest Pfleger

Arrogant beggars same as the Palestinians of Gaza who demand and demand and demand from the Jews and do indeed get their electricity from Israel and most water too


12 posted on 06/02/2008 6:43:08 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, if all our intstitutions are teaching kids to hate America, then what’s the point of conservatism? You would have to kick the leftists out and start over.


13 posted on 06/02/2008 6:44:04 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: Sub-Driver

From the article:

“FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has received at least $15 million in grants from the federal government — in other words, taxpayer money.”

(end snip)

15 years.....15-8=7

Then they had to bring this in:

(snip)

“Nationwide, African-American churches have used this kind of funding to pump investment into inner-city neighborhoods as a means of growing support — religious scholars say largely so under the Bush administration, when faith based grants increased significantly.”

(end snip)

I knew the MSM would have to throw ‘faith based’ programs into the mix in this article somewhere...and there it is!! LOL

‘Bush’s Fault’ (that Obama’s church is racist)

Another gymnastic leap by the MSM, when in the very same article, the writer says they don’t know how much money they got, when, or how they spent it!!

Yet, they can say, without any proof at all, that most of the largesse has been gained during the Bush Administration’s ‘Faith Based Initiatives’.

Big MSM leap over the ‘balance beam’ ...AS USUAL!!

(eye roll)


14 posted on 06/02/2008 6:48:07 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Trinity Church and Rev. Wright have forgotten the lesson of the ancient Israelites when Moses led them out of the wilderness. Instead of being grateful and thanking God for His blessings they focused on complaining, moaning and victimization. God set them free but they chose to remain negative and ungrateful and so they wandered in the wilderness 40 years longer than necessary.


15 posted on 06/02/2008 6:52:26 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Sub-Driver

Black Liberation Theology=Bite the white hand that feeds ya’.


16 posted on 06/02/2008 6:54:54 PM PDT by Biblebelter (If the big blue states got to choose the Republican nominee, I say let them elect him in the fall)
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To: Sub-Driver

No wonder they could do all those great outreach programs. They were using our money! Typical liberals like the Obamas are the ones who feel entitled to tax money from the paychecks of those who make a tenth of what they make every year.
Because they were being subsidized by us, Trinity Church could give Wright a $1,500,000 home in a gated white enclave for his retirement. That’s why they call it “the golden years.”


17 posted on 06/02/2008 6:57:05 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Sub-Driver

YEAR

PURPOSE

AMOUNT

1993-1994

child care

$ 137,592.12

1994-1995

child care food program

$ 30,772.10

1994-1995

child care

$ 109,581.68

1994-1995

Head Start

$ 11,492.70

1995-1996

child and adult care food program

$ 31,314.24

1995-1996

child care

$ 119,638.44

1995-1996

Head Start

$ 103,845.42

1996

Head Start

$ 45,691.43

1996-1997

conferences

$ 6,500.00

1996-1997

HIV/AIDS programs

$ 25,000.00

1996-1997

child care food program

$ 55,404.81

1996-1997

day care

$ 122,891.00

1996-1997

Head Start

$ 122,876.00

1996-1997

Head Start

$ 292,883.30

1997

not clear

$ 108,975.18

1997-1998

HIV/AIDS programs

$ 23,775.00

1997-1998

child care food program

$ 27,692.78

1997-1998

child care

$ 101,694.40

1997-1998

Head Start

$ 300,319.62

1998-1999

child and adult care food program

$ 58,352.58

1998-1999

child care

$ 336,863.32

1998-1999

Health and Human Services

$ 416,143.20

1998-1999

Health and Human Services

$ 93,268.05

1999-2000

Illinois Department of Human Services

$ 355,467.12

1999-2000

Head Start

$ 103,923.21

1999-2000

not clear

$ 114,251.43

1999-2000

Head Start

$ 326,709.16

2000-2001

child care

$ 363,118.00

2000-2001

not clear

$ 123,969.60

2000-2001

not clear

$ 128,833.29

2000-2002

not clear

$ 288,193.47

2001-2003

child care

$ 697,864.10

2001-2003

not clear

$ 106,542.19

2001-2003

not clear

$ 368,437.22

2003-2004

Head Start

$ 68,224.87

2003-2007

Head Start

$ 1,945,430.20

2006-2008

Head Start

$ 1,203,142.50

TOTAL

$ 8,876,673.73


18 posted on 06/02/2008 7:10:50 PM PDT by angkor
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To: Sub-Driver

Who is rapin’ who?


19 posted on 06/02/2008 7:13:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: TigersEye

BTTT


20 posted on 06/02/2008 7:28:35 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: bluerose

I am very POed. Anyone that voted for it should be run off.


21 posted on 06/02/2008 7:47:59 PM PDT by Big Horn (I am bitter, I just want to eat my waffle.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Thank you God for those GD whiteys and these here GD United States. But this ain’t enough! We want more since we been suffrin fo fo hunert years! And it’s all the GS whiteys fault.


22 posted on 06/02/2008 7:49:33 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Sub-Driver

$15 billion, just enough to buy Revernd Wright that mansion in Orland Park plus a couple of white Porsches manufactured by white people.


23 posted on 06/02/2008 7:56:52 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

The liberal media has never told us exactly what being a “Community Organizer” entailed. For Barack Obama, it meant basically getting money from local, state and federal governments to subsidize his hate church and other left-wing organizations.

People have no idea how much the funding of Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and other leftist groups comes from the taxpayer. With the help of Community Organizers like Barack H. Obama, of course.

Amazing how long it has taken for this information to come out.


24 posted on 06/02/2008 7:58:05 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: tflabo

From Hotair:

“Update (Ed): After AP posted this, I tooled around through the FedSpending.org database to see how these grants got allocated. The database covers all grants and contracts for fiscal years 2000-2007 and is a great resource. According to the search, TUCC received its last grant in FY2001, for $150,000 under a program to “Improve the Health Status of Minority Populations”.

After 2001, the grants apparently stopped, which might also explain some of the hostility Wright felt for the federal government.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/02/fox-news-wright-trinity-received-15m-in-taxpayer-money-from-gddamn-america/

So...now the truth is known, but this liberal commie writer just had to bring up ‘Faith based Initiatives’ from the Bush Administration (which was not even passed when the church got it’s last grant)

Color me pissed off at another MSM biased article.


25 posted on 06/02/2008 8:08:12 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: F15Eagle

The Video That Barack Obama DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sawN7uJ8s8s&feature=related


26 posted on 06/02/2008 8:47:04 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Sub-Driver; dead

Reverend Jeremiah Lesko says: "God Damn America! And get your FREE MONEY!"

27 posted on 06/03/2008 12:55:33 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: Sub-Driver
Now you know where the $10 million came from for Jeremiah's new crib.

And the chorus sings...

"Gimme, gimme, you rotten whiteys! Down with the USA!"

28 posted on 06/03/2008 5:06:28 AM PDT by redstates4ever
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To: Sub-Driver

How does a church get Federal grant money? (more like WHY) What happened to separation of church and state, huh?


29 posted on 06/03/2008 5:07:01 AM PDT by madison10 (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: All

Why do I feel like typical white person,taxpaying sucker?!

Giving the good “Reverend Wright” our money is beyond obscene.


30 posted on 06/03/2008 5:15:46 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Give them Watts boys!!")
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To: HonestConservative; eeevil conservative; AliVeritas

Seen this?


31 posted on 06/03/2008 9:48:38 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: HonestConservative; eeevil conservative; AliVeritas

Seen this?


32 posted on 06/03/2008 9:49:33 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: Sub-Driver; editor-surveyor; metmom; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; SJackson; dennisw; Tailgunner Joe; ...

“Rev.” Wright and the UCC are laughing all the way to the bank:

“Since 2003, the administration has increased grants to faith-based organizations by 20 percent. That’s a positive development; that’s the kind of news that I like to hear, particularly when those faith-based programs are changing America one soul at a time.”—George W. Bush

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050301-4.html


33 posted on 06/03/2008 9:58:52 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Beckwith

I’m sure you’ve seen this already, but just in case...


34 posted on 06/03/2008 10:00:43 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: madison10

The “Faith Based Initiatives” that Liberals complained about.


35 posted on 06/03/2008 10:55:45 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: GodGunsGuts

As usual, Jorge is looking out for us!


36 posted on 06/03/2008 11:04:45 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: Sub-Driver

The downside of faith based iniatives. At least the little ones are getting an “appropriate” education. President Obama would approve, and expand the program.


37 posted on 06/03/2008 11:08:29 AM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
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To: Sub-Driver

IRS needs to do a thorough investigation of this church. Preaching politics (of racial hatred) from the pulpit, lining the pockets of the pastor with money from the public trough, etc., is NOT the way my church works. It shouldn’t be the way ANY church works. Their “church” IRS status should be yanked.


38 posted on 06/03/2008 11:17:20 AM PDT by onemiddleamerican
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To: GodGunsGuts

Thanks for the ping!


39 posted on 06/03/2008 11:45:04 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess that whole Church and State thing doesn’t count if its a black church.

Then again, they don’t preach any recognizable gospel there, so maybe there’s no conflict.


40 posted on 06/03/2008 2:56:07 PM PDT by PsyOp (Truth in itself is rarely sufficient to make men act. - Clauswitz, On War, 1832.)
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To: Sub-Driver

And the IRS is where?


41 posted on 06/04/2008 12:06:06 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
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To: Mrs Zip

ping


42 posted on 06/04/2008 3:57:35 AM PDT by zip (((Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA)))))
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
everything from low income housing to nutritional programs for needy kids to money for HIV/AIDS education. Wright blames the government for intentionally infecting the African-American community with that deadly virus.

43 posted on 07/08/2008 10:34:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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