On Food Stamps and Disability Benefits

[mntleo2]

100. Mega-nons should be abolished IMO

,,. The "non-taxable" corporations are beyond sickening, they are immoral.

One time a friend asked one of the CEOs of the "Christian" organization World Concern as to why her office was so opulent when that money could go to fulfill their supposed "mission". She was outraged at even being asked the questions and said, "Fool! I could not get rich people to donate or the government to consider us "legitimate" for grants if I had to meet them in an office with folding chairs and a dirty table!" BTW, this was a Stanford Oil heiress "Christian" who lets her own kids live in poverty (who have had to turn to food stamps in order to eat), who will give her fortune to World Concern ~ and her 4th husband. I guess she did not listen when Jesus told the temple elites that they should clean up their own acts before telling others how to clean up theirs ...

But I too have seen this "ascension to heaven" in other organizations and how they spend little on their "missions", while exploiting their poor, in low wage jobs while giving most of it to themselves. A now national food network SUED the organization who invented food banks for the name they had created, "Northwest 2nd Harvest" This was because this small non-profit had never "registered" this name and the elites decided they wanted it for themselves. I am not making this up that at the time, this inventor of food banks was the (meagerly paid) Executive Director of this non-profit. Her name was Ruth Sterling and she was laughed off the stage when her idea first began (by the same people who now profit off her idea). Ruth noticed that grocery stores filled many dumpsters with their food who had refused to donate because they were afraid they would be sued. So Ruth won the legislative after doing all that "footwork" that this mega-non, who took the name she had created, now happily uses. Such as the laws she helped to pass in order to protect grocery stores if they donate food that makes people sick if it is spoiled.

This legislation opened up a floodgate of large grocery corporations willing to donate this food ~ and of course get tax breaks for their donations PLUS the tax breaks every corporation can get for any merchandise they have to discard. Northwest 2nd Harvest has "merged" with Food Lifeline, who can afford huge semis in order to go around collecting food ~ and they have further skewed those laws so they themselves can be the biggest organizations to get these food.

Again, I am not making this up to tell you that right next door to a food bank near me is a bakery distribution company. Every day this next-door-neighbor fills those taller-than-a-man racks with bread to be thrown away. The food bank cannot get that bread next door, they have to watch it being thrown away every day. Instead they are forced to pay for trucks and the cost of transportation to use a distribution center over 20 miles away who are the only ones "allowed" to give them this same bread from the same company. This is all due to the tax breaks this company can receive that cause them to throw good bread into the trash and refuse to just wheel that tall rack of bread across the parking lot to the food bank next door ~ costing thousands of dollars charged to the food bank who could actually use that money for more food.

While getting food to those who need it is of utmost importance, the cost of this could be much alleviated if these mega-nons spent their time and money actually fulfilling their mission instead of suing the very people who have benefited them and given them the means to profit even more off the poor by skewing the laws fwith which this small non-profit has done all the footwork to implement. I am frankly sick of seeing the massive profit making of the rich living off the backs of the poor for their own profit.

The kinds of things I speak of here are not kosher for many non-profits, who fear that if these mega-nons were exposed, then what little services are given would go away (another "too big to flail" for many small profits to endure because of the greed of mega-nons and I use the word "flail" on purpose). I hear those concerns loud and clear, but think that if exposed perhaps more of this money could flow to the smaller nons. Also many of these smaller nons fear having to give up their own morals in order to get this funding, so they often just stay quiet.

For instance a small non who desperately needs support could never apply for a grant from an organization or foundation who demands that in order to be funded (by $millions of government grants that are received for themselves), the small non's "mission" cannot include things that the small non is advocating for ~ such as low income families who are advocating for reproductive and abortion rights. If these small nons apply for grants from large religious mega-church organizations who refuse to support that part of the small non's mission, they either have to give up that part of their mission or be refused support for the other very important work they do with the direct services for low income families on the ground.

Low income work does not *only* include reproductive rights, it is also about other issues that poverty encompasses such as advocating for rights in the DSHS offices (who are notoriously punitive), or questioning the insanity of their government and these mega-nons that, if they want to force women to have children, why aren't they giving more support to them?

At this time only response to low income women who choose to keep their babies is to remove these children by force using CPS and their laws for their sword that create complete immunity for anyone involved in illegally taking these children. This "answer" to strong-arming women into having children has been created by the ironically named "Safe Families Act". With this money, often the very same religious institutions and government agencies who supposedly "help the wittle baybees" have created heueueuge agencies and private nons taking massive chunks of the Title IV $Billions they receive to use and profit solely dedicated to foster care and adoption agencies. Meanwhile they are routinely denying any support whatsoever for the women who decides to keep her baby. In other words everybody BUT the parents receive any assistance.

Again I hate to say it, these mega-nons and government entities dedicated to taking these babies, profit hugely from these endeavors while creating horrible conditions for the kids they take. From a study that MI Sate has done with over 90,000 "foster care and adoption alumni", they have found that these taken oper 80% of these kids experience an overwhelming amount of abuse that supposedly were "save" from. Meanwhile it has been shown by many studies that these kids would have been far more successful if left with support in their families even when their parents are substance abuses!! These mega-nons know this but do not care since they are making buccu bucks. I might add here that, while it should not matter as far as support for parenting if the other parent wants to be involved or not, a large proportion of these destroyed low income families are married or are long term committed couples who are poor whose children are taken simply because they are poor. We tend to believe that this illegal activity is only happening in other countries such as the prosecution for illegally taking African and Haitian children from their parents by the mega-non adoption agency run as a tax shelter by the religious wing nut billionaire woman from Idaho who runs the Home Shopping Network, but it is also regularly happening right here in the good ol' U. S. of A in every state. Taking children from low income parents and then giving generous subsidies for anyone involved in putting these kids into foster care and adoption is Big Business for the courts, for government agencies, for their contracted private for-profit companies, and for mega-nons!

So IMO these mega-nons need to be broken up and the government grants given to those doing real work who can prove a majority of their grant money is directly benefiting the people on the ground who need it. Sure you need offices and staff in order to do this work and they should be paid so they can DO this work. But sorry, if a mega-non only spends 20% of the $millions they receive in direct services, this should be considered grounds for refusing any grants until they can use AT LEAST 75% to give those services for which they claim their "missions" are all about. Most small nons not only do 10 X the work of these mega-nons, they are able to do this on funding that would not pay ONE DSHS manager, much less the amount of a mega-non Executive Director's pay. Instead of being judged by the amount of work they have done, mega-nons are run like a corporation where the bigger they get, they more they "deserve" $millions in government grants.

These grants if given to people who actually DO the work instead of giving funds to entities like that mega-non who are sued a small non in order to steal their name, or when dedicating their "work: to forcing women to have babies and then with the other hand are taking these children by force if low income parents decide to keep them, would do far greater good than paying these entitled dolts who show their hatred by giving themselves the perks while hating the poor with punitive and inadequate assistance!

My 2 cents

Cat