Forget about being a welfare queen:

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http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/families_with_a_mission

Ted Haggard and the Man Behind “Families With a Mission”
Posted by Dan Savage on August 24 at 16:38 PM

Ted Haggard, as we learned today on Colorado Confidential, wants you to pay for his and his wife’s living expenses while they go to college—they’re destitute, you see. (Colorado Confidential reports that the Haggards currently own a house in Colorado Springs valued at close to a three quarters of a million dollars.) In an open letter sent to Haggard’s gullible “supporters,” the disgraced preacher gives two addresses where money can be sent. Checks can be sent to Haggard’s mailing address in Phoenix or, if a supporter needs a tax deduction, checks can be sent to Families With a Mission, a charity based in Colorado Springs. “ their check to ‘Families With A Mission’ and put a separate note on it that it is for the Haggard family,” Haggard writes in the letter posted on Colorado Confidential, “then Families With a Mission will mail us 90% of the funds for support and use 10% for administrative costs.”

As posted earlier, local attorney and Slog reader Dave Coffman located documents on file with the Colorado Secretary of State that showed Families With a Mission “voluntarily dissolved” on February 23, 2007.

Hm. Weird—who knew you could get a tax deduction from dissolved charity?

And it gets weirder: There’s only one name on file with the Colorado Secretary of State in connection with Families With a Mission: Paul Huberty.

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1. Amazing, isn't it? When it comes to footing the bills for disgraced

fake holy men, there's no shortage of suckers. But when it comes to healthcare for poor children, food for hungry people, shelter for the homeless, then there's not enough money.

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2. Yes--and same with those hedgefund guys...

and mega-corporation execs. We just can't bend over too far to make sure we help them out of the immoral illegal messes they create. But this one takes the cake--or communion wafer, as the case may be.

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3. Well the American taxpayer has had to bail out all three of Poopy and

Bab's kids at one time or another. They've been wildly successful at being business failures. They never pay personally. It's always the schmuck doing without the insurance, food, or shelter that has to foot their bills and pay for their incompetence.