WASHINGTON – President Obama announced today that his newly formed White House Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships will play a significant role in stimulating the struggling American economy. In a private meeting with religious leaders this morning, Obama promised funding for the office in the neighborhood of $35 billion for the first year and estimated that the program will create a total of 12 jobs for the 2010 fiscal year.

“Job creation is an essential part of faith,” Obama told the group “and under my Administration, we will restore faith in the economy, which really is change that you can believe in.”

When asked by a reporter from the Cuba (Missouri) Recorder if the jobs would be available to members of any faith, Obama replied that a “belief in change” was an essential pre-requisite to any position offered by the office.

Of the $35 billion being appropriated for the new program, Obama plans on dedicating $8.4 billion to a public relations campaign designed to “Get Out The Faith!” on a local level, something his predecessor George W. Bush failed to include is his Faith-Based Initiative plan.

“If all politics is local, shouldn’t faith be local too?” quipped Obama at his press conference.

Let he who has the deepest pockets cast the most coin.

When asked about how such an effort would stimulate the dragging economy, Obama responded that simply “changing” the Bush program to a more progressive program would “create jobs and provide opportunities for former ACORN volunteers to move out of their parents’ basements and become contributing members of this great American society.”

When asked about the cost to taxpayers of just under $3 billion per job created by the Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Obama answered, “Sharing the wealth is what this nation was founded upon, and we plan to do just that.”

Originally posted 2009-02-07 12:00:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter