Posted on 06/10/2006 10:50:23 AM PDT by wagglebee
America is the land of entrepreneurs. Those that are successful find a formula that works and then replicate that formula many times to build an empire. We have seen this happen in the fast-food industry, in retail stores, in computers and many other venues.
There is one enterprise that has received very little attention for its commercial acumen because most people don't view it as a business. But it is. Let's take a few moments to look at this business, review its business model and determine the secret to its success.
First, let's look at some of the numbers associated with this business. Last year, it had gross revenue of $882 million and a net profit of $63 million. This marks the 19th year in a row that the enterprise has increased its gross revenue and made a profit. In fact, over those 19 years, it has a total profit of $649.6 million on gross revenue of $10 billion.
Like many franchise businesses in our country, it has achieved this level of success by working out a sound business model and then replicating that model all across the country. It began in 1916 with a single site in Brooklyn, N.Y. Since that time, it expanded to 938 facilities in 1995, but has seen some contraction since that time. Its latest annual report states that it operates 860 sites.
One of the interesting parts of the business model for this endeavor is that it has been able to tap into government money and avoid paying even one penny of taxes on its profits. Of the $10 billion the company has taken in over the last 19 years, 39 percent ($3.9 billion) has come from the American taxpayer. It was after it began receiving these funds in 1964 that its explosive growth began – more than doubling its locations over the next nine years.
As with any successful business enterprise, it makes every effort to create a demand for its products and services, identify the demographics of the consumers who are most likely to be its customers, and then implement a strategy to bring those customers through its doors. On a national level, 27 percent of its customers are under the age of 20 and 70 percent are under the age of 25. Thus, it is young people that make up the overwhelming majority of its customer base.
This demographic is not unexpected since the company's main products and services are geared to enabling individuals to engage in uninhibited sexual activity. So dedicated is this enterprise to the avocation of sex that when it published its 25-year plan in 2000, its No. 1 goal was to make sure that sex is celebrated.
Thus, the business model for this enterprise is: Get young people involved in sex; sell them products to use while having sex to avoid pregnancies and diseases; and provide back-up products and procedures to undo the results of the failures of its primary products – and to do all of this while convincing the American public and the government that it is providing a needed public-health service so that it can be granted tax-exempt status and never have to pay a penny in taxes on its profits.
So, what is the enterprise we have been describing? It is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, with its 120 affiliates and its 860 facilities across the United States.
Let's take a more in-depth look at this very successful organization. Planned Parenthood's business model elements include:
The implementation of this three-step business model has been very lucrative for Planned Parenthood. Just last week, it released its 2004-2005 annual report, and the numbers tell the story of a thriving enterprise – the numbers cited at the beginning of this column. This is indeed that $882 million business that made $63 million in profits last year; it has made a total profit of $649.6 million since 1987; Planned Parenthood has received $3.9 billion (yes, that's billion, with a "b") in taxpayer money since 1987 and spends $45 million a year on its sex education programs in an effort to sexualize our children.
In addition, Planned Parenthood kills over 250,000 pre-born babies in its own facilities each year. Its abortion business provides 31 percent of its clinic income. It does 180 abortions for every one adoption referral and kills 14 babies for every one it helps with prenatal care. Planned Parenthood committed 19.8 percent of abortions in the United States in 2004 and over 3.8 million babies have died in Planned Parenthood facilities since abortion was decriminalized in the United States.
Although the business has been successful for Planned Parenthood, it has been a disaster for the American people. It has contributed to the spread of debilitating and sometimes fatal diseases, has killed more people than currently live in many or our states, and has done it all under the guise of a "charitable" organization with 39 percent of its funding coming from our hard-earned wages.
This is one big business that we should close down, and we can start by stopping the flow of our tax dollars into its coffers.
"My sister sells sailors the rubbers;
My brother pokes holes with a pin;
My daddy gives girlies abortions;
Lord how the money rolls in.
Rolls in, rolls in, Lord how the money rolls in."
New slogan: "Over 3,800,000 killed!"
Revolting, but sadly true.
You'll make billions! Just think of the interesting Mothers Day and Fathers Day cards you can sell, celebrating the addictions and disease and abuses and deaths these wondrous products of culture provide. You'd have to go a long way thought to top the PP-hood x-mas (read Christmas) cards.
Ah, Barry, the real spirit of antichrist in these latter days. And even poor Barry doesn't realize it.
You've failed to calculate in the 'value added' that some PP-hood 'clinics' get by having the fetal tissue harvesters in there making use of the little ones offed by the PP-hood purveyors.
But then, I didn't subtract the value of the music never written, the inventions never invented, and the love shared by those murdered before they had a chance.
'And the loved shared' ... How haunting that is; there is a little boy of nearly three now whose mother planned to have him aborted at five months into his lifetime, but she did not finally follow through; I thank God that he's around to love and be such a blessing. Got to stop now to get a tissue ... leaky eyes.
Why did you forget to mention that your photograph is a complete invention, cobbled together by someone with only rudimentary skills in Adobe? Here's the real photo which was inserted into a Klan picture:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~roxanne/womanrhetor/margaretsanger2.jpg
Sanger admits in her autobiography that she spoke to the Ku Klux Klan.
This is merely a depiction of what it must have looked like when the Foundress of Planned Parenthood spoke at the Klan rally.
What do you think it looked like? Are you contending that Sanger herself was dressed in the KKK robes? I have never seen any actual pictures, are you aware of any? Why do you think this depiction is inaccurate? Do you think there were more KKK folks there? Or less? Was she Margaret Sanger wearing a Planned Parenthood T-Shirt or a Ku Klux Klan sheet? Why not come up with your own depiction and post it?
In her 1938 autobiography, Margaret Sanger discusses her keynote address at a Silver Lake Ku Klux Klan Rally.
I can't say what she said in her autobiography, since I have not, personally, read it. I'm willing to bet you haven't either. I don't see a reference to Silver Lake in the Margaret Sanger papers project at New York University, the best place for primary source material.
I see references to her Klan speech on such sites as the American Life League, and the Army of God sites (THERE's a great group to hang out with, huh?). I'd have to see real source material to know what's true; your standards appear to be lower. :)
I'm not defending her as an angel, certainly; she was most definitely a eugenicist, as was Theodore Roosevelt. World War II pretty much showed us why that wasn't such a good idea, after all, but she was hardly out there by herself in support of eugenics.
Herein lies the reason we must have unlimited, unregulated illegal immigration. Social Security is an inverted pyramid!
It was in the 1930s that Margaret Sanger and her American scientists gained kudos from Nazi scientists for their work on the Master Race.
With the outbreak of war, Margaret Sanger had to distance that organization from Nazi Germany, which were now enemies of the American people.
The solution was simple. Start a new organization and hide the ties to Nazi Germany by burying the previous organization...
Thus Planned Parenthood, which is strongly supported by the United Way, was able to hide its Eugenic past and ties to the Super Race concepts of Margaret Sanger and her friends in Nazi Germany. You just need a good marketing strategy, and keeping key politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and a host of other liberal/Democrat Senators that has served Planned Parenthood over the years.
On the one hand, Planned Parenthood rakes in tax dollars with the help of these politicians. And with the other hand, Planned Parenthood Votes! helps to keep such politicians in power...
Al Capone would be proud of the political clout of the Planned Parenthood Federation -- surpassing even his group of powerful Chicago/Illinois politicians and judges...
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