The uproar of the Democrats about Elon Musk and his crew of computer geeks is showing just how dangerous it can be to allow NGO’s (non-government organizations) to handle taxpayer’s money. NGO’s are nothing less than a black hole where money goes for projects earmarked by the government such as foreign aid to a country for disaster relief. The money is given to NGO’s to distribute the money and then they take a huge chunk out to pay their people that is often considered ‘administrative costs or fees’.
Looking at NGO’s you can find a lot of the people are paid very well for their work, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. Looking deeper you can usually find big names like Bill or Hillary aka Killary Clinton as being on board of directors or in the case of the Clinton Foundation, they setup the NGO and it their particular NGO is nothing less than a money laundering set up. Remember Haiti? Remember the Clinton Foundation took in millions to help the Haitians rebuild after the hurricane? I am not sure any of that money helped any Haitians.
Ever wonder how two Arkansas lawyers who one ended up President and the other Secretary of State made $240 MILLION from 2001-2015?
$240,000,000 works out to be $16,000,000 per year just for speaking, writing, consulting and advising. I cannot believe that those two shysters* have anything to say work 2 cents let alone $240 Million. So basically they lived off the NGO that took in money from all over the world. What was the reason of this money going to the Clinton Foundation? Well let’s see. Killary was Secretary of State when there was a Uranium deal with Russia. She basically had to agree to this deal for it and you might say that she would sign off on the deal if she got something in return….hmm you know…$$$$ BUT on paper it couldn’t be done as Secretary of State can’t make any more money than what the government pays which is basically peanuts to the Clinton’s so in steps this donation to the Clinton Foundation and poof! Money laundered.
While this scenario is the simplest to show, it also shows how nefarious NGO’s can be. USAID was set up to distribute aid to countries and groups to help people that is as far as that money is tracked. Yep, NO ACCOUNTABILITY because once that money goes into an NGO you cannot file a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) to find out where said money disappeared. So there is your black hole and there is where all that foreign aid disappears. Do you remember Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy saying he didn’t get half of the $177 BILLION that the US agreed to send. Well about 60% was kept in the US to pay for weapons, some was allotted for humanitarian efforts which basically went to NGO’s to disburse and who knows where that money went as we cannot track it!
NGO’s are non-profits, not subject to taxation, not subject to audits by the federal government. Is it any wonder that money going into the USAID fund was being distributed to organizations that supported terrorist organizations? The following list was pulled off of the White House.gov website, listing where our tax dollars were being spent on (highlighted).
Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:
Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
“Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
IF NGO’s who received government money were allowed to be audited by the government or American citizens were allowed to file FOIA requests, we could stop a lot of fraud, waste, abuse and money laundering by our elected officials. Something exactly like what DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) is doing is necessary on a yearly basis.
So now you know the money dangers o NGO’s. Maybe next time I will share what NGO’s can do with comprehensive planning.
Definition of the week: SHYSTER- noun ; a person, especially a layer, who uses unscrupulous, fraudulent, or deceptive methods in business. Merriam-Webster’s definition : a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics.
(Isn’t the above definition a perfect definition for Bill and Killary? Talk about irony!).
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