It's about time this so-called faith-based initiative shell game was exposed for what it is, a reward to Bush's fundamentalist supporters whose enterprises have received the vast majority of Federal funding. The old "spoils system" is alive and well, even if it's gussied up in religious trappings.

Of course, I'm not convinced that the present U.S. Supreme Court will rule the program unconstitutional on what I see as the merits of the case.

Charley Noble