The point of that is that they can help, and do and it would be financially wise to support THEM over creating another government hierarchy to oversee doing the same thing.
The government is fabulous at building more departments. It absolutely sucks at getting rid of them..which is how you end up with stories of $5000 toilets and the like.
No matter. If the Religious Right don't destroy this place it will likely implode on its own. We'll find something else to focus our collective ill will once they're gone.