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niyad

(113,344 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 11:51 AM Mar 2015

Child-Regifting Job Creator Justin Harris Got $4 Million In Tax Funds For Jesus Pre-School

grab that cash with both hands and make a stash


Child-Regifting Job Creator Justin Harris Got $4 Million In Tax Funds For Jesus Pre-School


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These big David Byrne suits dont' just grow on trees, you know.

Hey, we bet you’d like to read a story about sleazy child-regifting monster Justin Harris that isn’t about his sleazy child regifting for a change, wouldn’t you? Lord knows we have plenty of those already, and the whole sordid mess isn’t nearly finished playing itself out. Instead, let’s learn a bit more about Justin Harris, the small-government entrepreneur who says that government never created a single job — no, really, he said that — and who liked to brag in campaign ads about all the jobs he created at his “Growing God’s Kingdom” preschool in West Fork, Arkansas. Turns out he and his wife, Marsha, had a little help creating those jobs!

While we already noted that most of his funding came from state and federal government grants for low-income kids, now we know the price tag to the good people of Arkansas, their Department of Human Services (DHS), and the rest of the United States: Over $4 million in state and federal funds since 2010. Thank goodness all that money was going to a small-government conservative, or it might have been wasted!


According to DHS, Harris has received more than $4,195,651 from public program funds for his Growing God’s Kingdom preschool since 2010.

The department’s data show the following money has been distributed since 2010:

$547,619 from the USDA for free or reduced lunches for young children
$2.7 million from the Arkansas Better Chance state-funded pre-K
$945,580 from the Child Care Development Fund that helps pay for childcare for qualifying families.

Hey, we thought there was no such thing as a free lunch! But apparently there are $100,000 worth at just one preschool, each and every year! (For the record, we like free school lunches, and we are not the jerk-offs trying to ban them.)

But while that may seem like a lot of money, you have to remember that it was paying for lots of little kids to get a good Christian education, the way Jesus and the Constitution He wrote intended. And after Americans United for Separation of Church and State investigated the pre-school, DHS did tell Harris to knock it off with the in-school prayers, which he said he would, and so he probably did, maybe.

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Read more at http://wonkette.com/579656/child-regifting-job-creator-justin-harris-got-4-million-in-tax-funds-for-jesus-pre-school#lDjck4khW865WsAP.99

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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. The Mullahs of Iran and Saudi and the Taliban would greatly approve. Birds of a non-secular extremist feather.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 11:56 AM
Mar 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Handing over State-funded education from cradle to grave to approved religious cults is what Saudi does...not a joke.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 11:58 AM
Mar 2015

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
5. This must be the republican version of Christian Freeloader.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:17 PM
Mar 2015

Last edited Mon Mar 16, 2015, 01:31 PM - Edit history (1)

No money to investigate a fellow republican in matters related to a child sex crime, but plenty of money to indoctrinate children into religion along with exorcisms of the little devils when they misbehave.

niyad

(113,344 posts)
6. primary difference being, there really weren't many "welfare queens", but there certainly
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:21 PM
Mar 2015

are a lot of hypocritical, money-grubbing pukes.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
7. That is a propaganda phrase that does not need repeating, with respect.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:50 PM
Mar 2015

May I suggest "Christian Moochers"?

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
8. Moochers doesn't carry my desired connotation.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 01:14 PM
Mar 2015

I'd be happy to edit my post. How about Christian Freeloader, but it doesn't capture the evasiveness that this case seems to suggest.

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