Posted on 06/05/2024 3:51:18 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Consider the word “nonprofit.” Whoever came up with the idea of calling these organizations “nonprofits” was a marketing genius on the level of Steve Jobs. When someone hears the word nonprofit, they assume that such an organization is working for the public good; that it serves the homeless, protects the weak, exists for the benefit and the betterment of society at large. Hearing that something is a “nonprofit” immediately gives a sense that the organization is trustworthy and the people running it are driven by a charitable agenda. It’s a word that shuts down the critical faculties and grants an instantaneous moral stature to any organization to which it is applied. Consequently, nonprofits receive a benefit of the doubt that would not be granted to any other form of private corporation.
Yet nonprofit organizations are frequently the exact opposite of what they appear to be. As a consequence of the benefit of the doubt provided to nonprofits, there is rarely enough oversight to guarantee that they are doing what we pay them to do. In some cities, upwards of a billion dollars of public funds are paid to nonprofit organizations every year with glaringly insufficient safeguards to ensure that the money is used in a manner likely to serve the public interest.
This money is then spent in ways that would shock the taxpayers whose hard-earned dollars are being effectively stolen from them. Nonprofits that self-righteously declare themselves providers of homeless services actively lobby to make homelessness worse....to increase their own funding; nonprofit organizations hire convicted felons—including murderers.....sex offenders, and rapists—who go on to commit more felonies while receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in government contracts; and the executives of nonprofits, the very people in charge of institutions whose stated purpose is not to make money,
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Corruption is the word of the day at all levels of government, from the President to your local dog catcher.
It meant obscene salaries and benefits for some. Plus early retirement.
Ukraine IS an American non-profit corporation.
Can we survive the destruction brought by this corruption? We’re so outnumbered!
I've lived in places (Rhode Island) where that was literally true. Family who once lived in New Jersey say the same. She even had to bribe the trash collector! But out here in flyover country where I live now that's not the case. I think it's a city disease.
You’re probably right.
NGOs are being funded by the taxpayer to facilitate the invasion of our nation by illegal immigrants. You had better start thinking about what is going on in this nation, because saving Ukraine while allowing this nation to be turned into a tyranny, is not helping Ukraine one iota. Once we are gone, all concern about Ukraine will be gone as well, because as I have said many times over Ukraine is the distraction.
He’s not right, because big cities exist in all states Montana is a red state yet it still elects Democrats and as a result Montana is a purple state. Same is true for Texas, and Colorado and many of the other fly over states.
True for NH as well. The state government is currently under republican control in all branches, but yet elects dems for federal positions.
In that case, I do have to agree that cities are the cause of it. The cities here have enough population to overwhelm the republican vote to get in republican House and Senate reps. NH has a plethora of small towns and many districts at the state level.
“Non-profits” are how leftist good-for-nothings get rich. They don’t call their tax-free gains profits, they call them surpluses. If we can’t abolish them, we should join them- I see no reason a family farmer can’t play this game, just say you’re growing farm to table as a public benefit, charge a higher price, and keep the “surplus” tax-free.
Nonprofits are also one of the way democrats reward women in the black community.
When Elijah Eugene Cummings died some years back there was enough money going to nonprofits in his district that if the money had been distributed to the people living in his district every man, woman and child woujld have received over $10,000 a year...
Oh, I am not disputing his claim that cities are responsible, I am disagreeing with his contention that fly over states do not have these same problems. Oklahoma is another good example. The entire state is covered in red, but the big cities are blue. Even my state Louisiana is mostly red, with blue areas in our big cities.
Even NYS is like that. A county by county red/blue map of NY clearly shows exactly where the cities are.
It seems that the problem is more cities vs rural as opposed to liberal vs democrat.
However, for some reason, the cities seem to attract democrats and leftists.
Cities are more like concrete jungles that have to be navigated, because danger lurks around every corner from the wildlife that roams within the concrete jungles.
There are liberals & conservatives living in cities, just more liberal live in cities than do conservatives. The conservatives in cities tend to be more moderate. So yes, cities play an integral role. What the dynamics are, have been debated without much consensus being reached that I am aware of.
It’s the flow of information.
You are what you eat.
Journalists dominate the information flow so that no information passes their filters that is informative. Hence all people support bigger and bigger government.
Stop giving to most 501c3’s etc, ie united way, local homeless orgs, churches, etc...there are very few worth giving to, ie. Hillsdale, the 911 one Rush helped advertise, etc.
That's my policy now. Hillsdale, Judicial Watch, True the Vote, Buckeye Firearms Assn., and that's pretty much it.
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