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Apply the New Standards to Community Based Organizations

By: reddog53 (Diary)  |  February 8th, 2009 at 09:57 AM  | 

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Recent posts have shown that legislation, as well as  Porkulus,  are funneling large sums of money to ‘community based organizations.’

Given the President’s expressed idea that there ‘can’t be two sets of rules,’ it then follows that these organizations must also be treated the same way as the banks and other commercial entities that have received government funds.  The compensation of the executives and staffs of community organizations must follow the same caps, and the same scrutiny applied to the banks regarding their expenditures for private jets, office furniture and the like must also apply.  The same need for transparency also applies to the community organizations in terms of ‘opening their books.’

If the administration is unwilling to apply these same standards, then Congress should immediately act to suspend funds headed to those organizations.

Once the public can see what ACORN and the like are spending their money on, approval for their operations will decline.

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  • familydoctor

    appropriate to apply those same standards but I think we would be hard pressed to find any “community organizations” which pay even their top staff over the $500,000 that has been bandied about. If you know of any, let me know. I might be changing careers soon!

    • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

      but we’ve certainly seen large charitable groups like United Way pay exorbitant salaries.

      But don’t get any bright ideas – they’re not looking for doctors, they’re looking for business-types who are part of the top-management network. Really tough club for a “family doctor” to break into.

      Bigger point – the mentality of these top leaders of non-profits is similar to that of corporations – except that the non-profits delude themselves into think that their non-profit status gives them moral superiority. And their business practices are often more unethical than corporations, in terms of nepotism, non-competitive contracts, etc.