It’s immaterial if the local troops have nothing to do with supporting Planned Parenthood or the abortion agenda directly. The local troops support the national organization, so they are supporting the agenda just the same. Since they’ve taken no action on their own to rectify that, obviously the only thing that will spur them to action is outside pressure. If they don’t like it, then they need to complain to the source of the problem, the national organization, not to those applying the pressure.
Local troops have spread the message of Planned Parenthood to the girls by way of birth control and abortion. Think they will have a baby killing badge for that?
Local troops support themselves first (we start a troop with nothing)
The only official money-earning the girls can do is cookie sales to pay for their troop activities, so that is how the 8 yr olds pay for camp and most also vote to give money away to charity. They earn .50 -.80 a box depending on incentives, the more the troop sells, the more profit. Many troops subsist on a couple hundred bucks for the year. Yet our 20+ community troops spent some of their cookie money on at least 36 Christmas gifts for homeless kids and many troops drove up to BWI and handed out cookies to troops coming back from overseas and at the USO. If you ever pass by a USO ask how many boxes of donated GS cookies they have.
Next level up, we support the Councils, they run the camps and our programs for training and fun. Councils could accept program help from PP if the members wanted it, ours do not and our Council does not.
No interaction with National except to buy books badges and uniforms. National benefits from cookie sales only through the licensing fees companies pay to use logo and brand
The membership dues are $12 a year BTW (includes national and international membership) So no one who joins GSUSA is funding much of anything
Your federal taxes fund Planned Parenthood. So do your church offerings and corporate donations from many of the products you buy every day. Talking tough about boycotting the IRS? AT&T? Exxon?
Local troops support themselves first (we start a troop with nothing)
The only official money-earning the girls can do is cookie sales to pay for their troop activities, so that is how the 8 yr olds pay for camp and most also vote to give money away to charity. They earn .50 -.80 a box depending on incentives, the more the troop sells, the more profit. Many troops subsist on a couple hundred bucks for the year. Yet our 20+ community troops spent some of their cookie money on at least 36 Christmas gifts for homeless kids and many troops drove up to BWI and handed out cookies to troops coming back from overseas and at the USO. If you ever pass by a USO ask how many boxes of donated GS cookies they have.
Next level up, we support the Councils, they run the camps and our programs for training and fun. Councils could accept program help from PP if the members wanted it, ours do not and our Council does not.
No interaction with National except to buy books badges and uniforms. National benefits from cookie sales only through the licensing fees companies pay to use logo and brand
The membership dues are $12 a year BTW (includes national and international membership) So no one who joins GSUSA is funding much of anything
Your federal taxes fund Planned Parenthood. So do your church offerings and corporate donations from many of the products you buy every day. Talking tough about boycotting the IRS? AT&T? Exxon?
That’s the ticket. The left has coopted many of our institutions. Girl Scouts join unions, education media, religious leadership, Wall Street leadership and the judiciary as coopted entities.
We are in a fight for the country folks. This election is important.