Opinion As the rich get richer the answer is private giving and charities...

[KAZSoliloquy]

This is why I believe all charities and non-profits need to be eliminated. Doing all these charities and philanthropy is not sustainable for a society that can fix problems.

or at least require them to actually give away 90% of all money donated minimum.

 

[ChosenOne]

Why would this pile of shit pay his rape accuser money to keep quiet??? Doesn’t add up. If you are truly innocent, you don’t pay money to keep that hush hush.

Beyond that...

If you are looking to hire a financial controller for your business and a guy who applies, is known to have been accused of trying to steal from two prior companies, him simply saying 'i was not convicted for that and am innocent', is not something an employer will over look and put that person in such a key position, where they might have so much unchecked power.

Sucks if he is truly innocent but he will need to take lesser jobs, build trust and work his way back up.

Hegseth should not and could not be trusted in such a position of trust, where he is in the Chain of Command on situations that could see the US commit to war or nuclear attack, etc based on 'he was not convicted of anything'.

He has NEVER run ANYTHING resembling an important major organization and demonstrated he has any such skills and he failed in two minor chances in running non profits, and that alone, putting aside the drunken, womanizing stuff, does not qualify him to 'test his ability to to not drink and perform'.

Hegseth himself is asking for this test, saying 'i will quit my drinking if hired', but not if not hired and many people have tried to quit and failed. And when you become the boss and no one can hold you to account, quitting becomes that much harder.

 

[ChosenOne]

or at least require them to actually give away 90% of all money donated minimum.

I think all of the big charities disclose and the average is about 5% going to administrative (salaries, offices, etc) and ~25% going to fund raising expenses (tv commercials, charity events, etc) and the rest ~30% going to the cause.

I think it would be hard to do much better than that, unless you did no fund raising and then could give 95% of the money raised but it would be a much smaller amount.

 

[jk7707]

yes... they need to go.

• Treasury Department: 94,400 employees
• Department of Agriculture: 85,000 employees
• Department of Health and Human Services: 79,200 employees
• Department of the Interior: 61,900 employees
• Social Security Administration: 58,200 employees
• Department of Transportation: 53,100 employees
• Department of Commerce: 41,000 employees
• Department of Education: 5,000 employees

These numbers are basically indefensible. The other department may or may not need to be more selective.

And you don't think cutting 50% of the staff of all of these agencies will have a detrimental effect on how they function and the services they provide?

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

I think all of the big charities disclose and the average is about 5% going to administrative (salaries, offices, etc) and ~25% going to fund raising expenses (tv commercials, charity events, etc) and the rest ~30% going to the cause.

I think it would be hard to do much better than that, unless you did no fund raising and then could give 95% of the money raised but it would be a much smaller amount.

then it shouldn't exist imo

 

[jk7707]

You should have stopped right there.

Concession noted.

 

[ChosenOne]

then it shouldn't exist imo

Interesting.

Why do you think that? Why do you think it is bad for a non profit (company) to have to spend money on marketing to get their product (money) which they can then help people with?

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

And you don't think cutting 50% of the staff of all of these agencies will have a detrimental effect on how they function and the services they provide?

Nope

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Interesting.

Why do you think that? Why do you think it is bad for a non profit (company) to have to spend money on marketing to get their product (money) which they can then help people with?

i mean kinda, depending on the amount. makes more sense to do these things locally so it can be more charity and less overhead costs/salaries/marketing

 

[nostradumbass]

What proof do you have that they are "Fake smears"... since you are stating that as if fact?

It is possible you are correct but it is also possible you are wrong, and what happens to one of the most vital agencies in gov't if you are wrong and a drunken abuser who could not run two charities for veterans gets in?

Do you say "oops"!

WTF? Obviously you don't get to lob ridiculous accusations at political opponents that were proven false, then say "yeah but what if? Just to be safe you should just let us pick all your cabinet positions even though we got pink socked in the election".

The board of trustees already issued a letter saying it is false, and that he left on his own because of foreign policy differences and had less time between writing a book and working at Fox. He was the CEO for 4 years. You think they had a CEO who was blacking out and smacking strippers, and it took them 4 years to get rid of him?

The cops already told the dime store hooker to take a hike after everybody at the bar, at the hotel, the surveillance cameras and her own husband all contradicted her story and corroborated the opposite and said she was the one throwing herself at a TV star while her husbandand kids were down the hall, and they offered to record her calling Pete to see if he admits to anything, and she said hell no to that.

Democrats have 0 credibility because they do the exact same thing to everyone they want to block, then after the confirmation is over, it's "whoopsie daisy". Democrats lost, get over it.

 

[jk7707]

Nope

Then you're laughably ignorant on what they do.

I'll give you one example that I have plenty of first hand knowledge about.

I work for the department of interior, you know, the people that run our national parks. Cut 50% of the staff from this department and you won't have enough law enforcement, trash collection, search and rescue, building maintainence or anything else to keep up with visitation. In short, the parks don't function, period.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

Then you're laughably ignorant on what they do.

I'll give you one example that I have plenty of first hand knowledge about.

I work for the department of interior, you know, the people that run our national parks. Cut 50% of the staff from this department and you won't have enough law enforcement, trash collection, search and rescue, building maintainence or anything else to keep up with visitation. In short, the parks don't function, period.

The national parks will be fine without all the desk jockeys such as yourself. I'm sure you will be fine in the private sector, unless there is some reason you can't compete.

 

[44nutman]

All Charities IIRC are only legally required to put 11 cents to their root cause.
Those poor homeless veterans / starving dogs / refugees / sick children...
can NEVER see 89 cents out of every dollar donors send to help them.

Having compassion for what misery ya see, ya wanna help? Of course.

Remember that 89 dollars of your hundred dollar donation can go directly into a million dollar CEO salary, laughing at gullible donors. Sickening. Legalized theft.

Ya see a celebrity's pitiful begging, Know That Your donation is paying them first.

Which is why I ask every charity that calls what percentage they give to the charity and legally they have to tell you. 11% ain’t a charity they are just using the charity to line your pockets

 

[jk7707]

The national parks will be fine without all the desk jockeys such as yourself. I'm sure you will be fine in the private sector, unless there is some reason you can't compete.

Oh don't worry, I'll still be here making sure braindead cultists like you don't go and get yourself gored by a bison, or walk off a cliff.

I'm sure it'll be a great look telling people Yellowstone is closed for the summer due to lack of staff so millionaires can have their taxes cut again.

 

[nonoob]

Which is why I ask every charity that calls what percentage they give to the charity and legally they have to tell you. 11% ain’t a charity they are just using the charity to line your pockets

When this was first realized my way IIRC by Urethra Franklynz doing a "benefit" concert to help their cause. Her "charity" was given, she was "happy to do it to help" in gratitude to benefit a good cause.

She hid that her "expenses" were first charged for each member's limousine travel with every 4 and 5 star hotel stay necessary for the entire time for her needed "entourage and security".

The legit charity, so excited to have her help, had no idea the star POS's exposure would get them sued for her hidden "charity compensation".

Okra was a recent political supporter, she also believed in did-eez kamala millions, just like the freak-off videos of Okra, Kamala, J-Lo, Beebs, Leo, etc.

 

[44nutman]

And you don't think cutting 50% of the staff of all of these agencies will have a detrimental effect on how they function and the services they provide?

They are cutting them so a South African who gave Trump a 1/4 billion+ can save a couple percentage points on his taxes.
The GOP and their corporate masters forgot why the Romans used to do Bread and Circuses.

 

[Hdfi]

I think all these so-called philanthropists are more or less like King Leopold II with his humanitarian charity in Congo.

 

[lifelessheap]

All Charities IIRC are only legally required to put 11 cents to their root cause.
Those poor homeless veterans / starving dogs / refugees / sick children...
can NEVER see 89 cents out of every dollar donors send to help them.

Having compassion for what misery ya see, ya wanna help? Of course.

Remember that 89 dollars of your hundred dollar donation can go directly into a million dollar CEO salary, laughing at gullible donors. Sickening. Legalized theft.

Ya see a celebrity's pitiful begging, Know That Your donation is paying them first.

Red Cross are the worst.

 

[SoSo]

Words I have not read in a long time.

But truer words have not been said.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

Oh don't worry, I'll still be here making sure braindead cultists like you don't go and get yourself gored by a bison, or walk off a cliff.

I'm sure it'll be a great look telling people Yellowstone is closed for the summer due to lack of staff so millionaires can have their taxes cut again.

If your job is to tell people not to pet the Bison or dive into a pool of boiling water, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your job could be done by a road sign.

good luck.....