And the organzation knew they had a winning product with their first box of cookies sold. Who could resist such an "angelic face"?
These sweet little girls could sell dog biscuits to people without pets.
I'm wondering how much of the profit from cookie sales realistically benefits these young girls and all the volunteers necessary to keep the organization in existence.
I hardly expect any bleeding heart liberal to even imagine such a question, while I view conservatives as those who look deeper into every issue.
Back in the 1950's when I was in scouting and my mother was Neighborhood Chairman for the largest area in St. Louis, I understood that the individual troop received a small percentage, but the greater part went to fund camping facilities and then another small part went to pay for the product with the left-over to the National hierarchy. Whether that is still the case, I cannot say. I only know that my mother (who was no camper by ANY stretch of the imagination) shepherded hundreds of girls to Camp Fiddlecreek and learned herself then taught them all the skills any soldier in battle would need to keep clean and cook and survive.
Trust me, I learned how to cook everything over an open fire you can imagine -- she'd never let me near her kitchen, but I can camp the poop out of anybody -- it's the skinning and cleaning of fish that I never could bring myself to do. I had trouble in Biology for Elementary School Teachers when I had to knock a frog out to disect it. I did, however, keep my disection kit for carving pumpkins every Halloween and still have my mess kit and bow and arrows somewhere. ;-)