another good person’s good deed hijacked by the progressives.
On a mundane level, the Girl Scouts aren’t immune to the problems facing McDonald’s, Kroger or any other seller of foodstuffs. They are slashing portions (another box of air) and charging more and their customers have noticed.
And then there are the politics. The Scouts are the Junior PC Army now. They have appointed a lesbian as ‘Chief Girl Experience Officer,’ which sounds like the premise for a porn film. Their method of dealing with press inquiries is an especially smug variety of boilerplate in which they quote meaningless statistics and big themselves up some more.
As with schools, sports and other youth-oriented endeavors, the leftists simply cannot resist the devil’s candy of young impressionable minds to poison. They’ve gone from in loco parentis to parents having to monitor closely what nonsense the Scouts have foisted on their daughters.
This will probably set me at odds with many people but here goes.
I personally NOW believe, (I didn’t use to), that Marijuana as well as other currently illegal drugs should be made legal as well as taxed. Why?
Because the War on Drugs as well as the War on Terror have destroyed the foundations of this country and have brought us to the very edge of a total Surveillance and Police State. The Federal Government is nearly supreme in everything and can tell us, (The Citizens), what we can and can’t do from how much water our toilets can use to whether or not we can grow ‘organic’ vegetables to feed ourselves. Our movements are monitored, our computer usage can be monitored at whim.
I can go on and on, why bother if you’ve been here long enough you know all of that stuff. The solution IMHO is to legalize the damn drugs first and tax the h*ll out of them. It’s totally amazing at how hard the government will fight for it’s tax revenue isn’t it? That in itself will put a huge damper on illegal drugs entering the country. They’ll do it legally now and eventually make even bigger profits by getting rid of the more expensive portions of their current networks and security forces.
This scene plays out all across the country: You come out of a supermarket after having paid $238.05 in groceries and suddenly you are confronted with little girls with those pleading eyes squealing for you to purchase some of their overpriced factory-made cookies. They are invariably ringed by scowling, hovering, "Girl Scout" moms, standing out there in the cold, clutching their Starbucks coffee cups, as they stare you down - as if daring you to not to shell over $20 for your four boxes.
It's as bad as the Salvation Army people at Christmastime ("Put a nickel in the drum, save another drunken bum")
I just walk past the lot of them, not even making eye contact.
No more odd than their partnership with Planned Parenthood. I wonder if they offer a free box of cookies with every abortion.
I have no problem with the members capitalizing upon the side-effect of the legal state-approved product.
I have a problem with the policies of Girl Scout national organization.
I hate Do-Gooders, the author should go annoy her local PTO in Jersey.
Having been closely involved with the Girl Scouts for over a decade I can say with authority that in the 15 years since my wife stopped being a troop leader that they have become an organization with which we would now have no association.
I won’t even try listing the things that have changed for the worse. Makes me ill to see what has been done.
We have lost the culture war, IMO. I don’t see us coming back.
“Think it’s odd that the organization isn’t taking a universal stance other than providing general safety guidelines?”
No, I think it is good that the organization structure leaves certain policy decisions up to the Councils and even up to troop leaders. Sometimes there could be better decisions in hiring staff at these levels that make these local decisions and set these guidelines for the troops - staff that would laugh pot-loving parent complainers off the public stage
If you don’t agree with the Council, you can find a troop in another Council. If we let National set all our policies, it would cause big trouble.
Homosexualism destroys.
While the organization sorts out the matter, or ignores it, let me remind them that smack dab in the middle of the controversy are innocent young females hoping to sell cookies.
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That’s only one of the issues these children’s lives are being threatened with.