Leslee Never Wanted All That Money to Begin With!

Today's Argus features a story about local abstinence organizations preparing to lose their funding. Some are worried they'll have to shut down, several are willing to embrace a more comprehensive message, and Leslee admits she never wanted any of the government's dirty lucre anyway:

Leslee Unruh, Abstinence Clearinghouse director and Alpha Center founder, said she'd rather pay for Truth 4 Youth with private donations.

"I've never liked federal money," she said, decrying the restrictions attached to such grants. "If I had my way, I'd want no federal money going for this."

Also, she thinks struggling South Dakota schools will pony up cash for the honor of having her disrupt their curriculum for a week:

"The schools will pay then because they love the program," she said. "I think, actually, our movement will be stronger."

As an American taxpayer, let me just say, considering the level of our national debt and our current economic situation, if you don't want federal money, please don't take it. We could've used that money for something else -- we could've given it back to the hardworking people it came from. This woman took $635,000 this year alone for her Truth 4 Youth program. In 2007, the Abstinence Clearinghouse received $1 million and the Alpha Center has gotten about $240,000 per year from the feds. And now she's acting like she was pissed off about even having to take it?

I hope all the folks at the big tea party who were complaining about government spending and waste give Leslee and Allen a call about this. They've been living like the ultimate welfare queens and now that cash cow has dried up, they've got the nerve to bitch about how much they've been given. Unbelievable.