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Friday, July 21, 2006
Another crooked Bush appointee
Turns out Mike Leavitt has been using a charity as a front for personal enrichment.
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and his relatives have claimed millions of dollars in tax deductions through a type of charitable foundation they created that until recently paid out very little in actual charity, tax records show. Another compassionate conservative I'm sure. Compassionate must mean selfish or hypocritical. Doesn't sound exactly like he's been donating his money to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation does it? |
3 Comments:
I find the whole Mike Leavitt charity scam extremely distasteful because, to me, it demonstrates the corruption of the Mormon church and culture. The church preaches honesty and generosity, but in reality practices just the opposite, which I learned while being raised in the faith. That an LDS public official and his entire family would not only practice but defend such activities demonstrates the bankruptcy of the Mormon faith.
7:07 AM, July 21, 2006
Eh,
People are corrupt in every belief system. I wouldn't take it too personally that they're Mormons. No religion is exempt from assholes.
It's just the astounding proportion of these crooks in the Bush administration that are corrupt that is so surprising to me. From advisors to the president shoplifting at Target to lowly bureaucrats selling contracts to Abramoff, they all seem to see service in the executive as an excuse to enrich themselves.
11:33 AM, July 21, 2006
There is a strange, and disturbing, intersection of conservative religious extremism and rapacious capitalism. It's not limited to any particular sect, either: Protestant fundies, Catholics (who pine for not just pre-Vatican II days but the days when you could burn heretics), even some conservative Jews. The pious Abramoff and Delay for just two examples.
For Protestant fundies, it ties back into the noxious "prosperity gospel". For Catholics like the terrifying American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property it's about bringing back the good old days when the Church worked in service to the rich elites to oppress the poor -- and no I am NOT exaggerating about that. (Also they're all about wearing snazzy red capes.)
And so on it goes; scumbags of any religion can find preexisting justification for being complete human vermin. Nothing new, as you say. But in many ways a whole lot worse than simple con-men exploiting the religious; they really believe they're doing "God's work" establishing slave colonies in Saipan.
12:15 PM, July 21, 2006
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