Did everyone else understand that Non Governmental Organizations, ie, NGOs, receive most if not all of their funding from the government, or was I just being ignorant?
If NGOs receive most if not all of their funding from the government, what is the basis for calling them non-governmental?
The answer according to Google is that an NGO is non-governmental because it operates without governmental control and oversight even though it receives government funding.
Why is it beneficial for there to be non-profit organizations, that is NGOs, that receive all or substantially all of their funding from our government, but don’t have any government oversight or control?
Non-profits are not known for having good governance. The combination of funding without oversight and control creates the opportunity for fraud, waste and abuse that we have seen in some of the USAID grants that have been made public in the last week or so.
In the private markets, that is the real world, a majority shareholder would have control and oversight. Why do we allow our government to make majority investments without control and oversight? It makes no sense.
It is time we scrutinize all NGOs and reconsider investing taxpayer money in private organizations without proper oversight and control consistent with what a majority investor would expect in a private corporation.
NGOs provide a way to circumvent the Constitution. The NGOs can do what the government is not permitted to do. The trick is to staff them with your guys. So you end up with a patronage network and organizations that apparently represent real constituents but that really don't.
Every car payment you struggle to make. Every rent payment you're scraping the barrel to pay every month and every food item that you had to put back on the shelf because you couldn't afford to buy it remember that they spent hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on everyone who didn't earn it to foreign countries who don't deserve it, while you're paying for it.
How did you think the illegals were all marching hundreds of miles and arriving w/cell phones & clean clothes? How do you think they knew where to go to gather?
NGO’s do the work the government isn’t legally allowed to do.
Bill,
This is all part of the same career politician game. Somewhere along the line “Congress” realized they could outsource “hard” decisions and create an agency — ATF, CDC, Dept of Ed, FHA, DEA and thousands of other agencies.
Why you ask— because then they don’t have to go on record for, or against anything. When an agency does anything that is unpopular, Congress can scream in the media that they didn’t vote on it and don’t hav to defend it when running.
By skirting these things it also allows them to fundraise their entire term. So House person X is elected, they go to Congress and don’t vote on anything substantial as the NGOs are running 90% of the country. They spend 6 months a year fundraising and when reelection comes around, they don’t have anything that they’ve accomplished but they have 50x the cash of any challenger.
It’s a cycle that we’ve allowed to happen and it’s disgusting.
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