Here's more evidence of the budgetary sleight-of-hand, misguided priorities, and broken promises that we've all come to expect from the Bush Administration. This time, it's from former Bush staffer David Kuo, whose new book has gotten signficant press attention. Introducing the book, he writes on BeliefNet of the grand promises Bush made as a presidential candidate in 2000. That day a conservative Texas governor promised more than $8 billion during his first year in office to help social service organizations better serve "the least, the last, and the lost." More than $6 billion was to go for new tax incentives that would generate billions more in private charitable giving. Another $1.7 billion a year would fund faith-based (and non-faith-based) groups caring for drug addicts, at-risk youth, and teen moms. $200 million more would establish a "Compassion Capital Fund" to assist, expand and replicate successful local programs. Legislation would ensure that reported government discrimination against faith-based social service organizations would end. A new White House Faith-Based Office would lead the charge. Faith-based charities would see barely any of that money. And some of the money that actually was allocated to faith-based groups may be diverted later on. Unfortunately, sometimes even the grandly-announced "new" programs aren't what they appear. Nowhere is this clearer than in the recently-announced "gang prevention initiative" totaling $50 million a year for three years. The obvious inference is that the money is new spending on an important initiative. Not quite. The money is being taken out of the already meager $100 million request for the Compassion Capital Fund. If granted, it would actually mean a $5 million reduction in the Fund from last year. This isn't what was promised. When it comes to poverty, President Bush has never put his money where his mouth is. Kuo gets it- will the rest of the conservative evangelical community get it, too? Do they really care?