This week's idiot is a famous televangelist who continues to bilk people out of their money so he can live in a luxurious and massive house, drive expensive cars, and travel everywhere... But NOW he's bilked ALL Americans, using their tax dollars that should help businesses impacted by COVID19. Joel Olsteen is a loser and this week's Idiot. What's more, HE, and CHURCHES, don't even PAY TAXES. Outrageous. Here's the story from Dec. 15, 2020:
Image via Getty/Astrid Stawiarz/SiriusXM Trace William Cowen Tue, December 15, 2020, 12:48 PM EST·3 min read
Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church, in a move that should surprise absolutely no one, managed to bag $4.4 million in federal Paycheck Protection Program loans.
The church received the loan as part of the federal government’s pandemic stimulus package, per the Houston Chronicle's report. Specifically, the millions in PPP for Lakewood were made possible by way of the federal CARES Act, which detailed the purposes of the loans as existing to provide wages or other operational costs. In a first, the program included the allowance of direct financial assistance to places deemed "houses of worship."
Reps for Lakewood, as noted in Robert Downen's report, said early this summer they had not applied for a loan. Furthermore, the church's name was not featured on a Small Business Administration list of recipients shortly after the first round of applicants. A loan for Lakewood, however, was approved in mid-July following the reopening of the program. In July the Chronicle reported that more than a thousand groups of the religious variety in the state of Texas had been given hundreds of millions of dollars.
Naturally, the general public is not too thrilled by the idea of Joel "Miracles in Your Mouth" Osteen's church landing millions in PPP funds.
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