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.