Especially when so many politically powerful individuals and groups profit financially and politically from “doing good” with the money pried from taxpayers.
Truth
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Defunding the police, allowing wide-open borders, declining to prosecute criminals or at most apply absurdly light sentences, convincing children to be mutilated and sterilized — all of these things are deeply unpopular with the overwhelming majority of Americans. And it’s becoming increasingly clear that they’re only happening because taxpayer’s money has been shoveled into various organizations promoting this nonsense— and a lot of grifters have built careers on it and made fortunes doing so.
It’s as though having access to absurd amounts of taxpayer dollars insulated those organizations from having to consider public opinion at all. And of course if that firehose of taxpayer dollars was turned off, those bad ideas would likely die under the weight of their own stupidity.
It’s been very revealing to see which politicians and which groups are furious at DOGE’s attempts at shutting down the money pipeline.
To quote that noted philosopher Homer Simpson: “the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don’t have to think all the time.”
Seems to me too many in government and NGOs took the Simpsons as a how-to manual. And the fact the creators/writers support the theft.
As ever, the Democratic Party is a collection of people who fancy public institutions are their property. State colleges, legislative bodies, local schools, the courts, &c. This mentality generates the pathologies we see. Electoral fraud, judicial usurpation, embezzlement of public funds, the decay of the schools into sectarian institutions, the abuse of dissenters.
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About five years ago, a member of a municipal council in suburban Chicago offered a diffident objection to spending council time on sectarian posturing. This was the response. (The dame in question is a local pediatrician, who has a surprising amount of discretionary time for a physician):
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v83OyjHnqUw
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She’s absolutely enraged that someone would take exception to something she wanted and offer their own opinion on it. The presiding officer dozes through this and she has a cheering section in the audience.
Tired of being treated like chattel by people who were elected for a limited task.
As an adult citizen, elected officials shouldn’t be deciding:
what charity I give to
what speech I engage in
what products I may buy…
Yet, it is worse than that. UNelected bureaucrats are dictating such things to me. I have no recourse against them, no means to remove them, no impartial mechanism by which to redress the wrong.
Trump may not be getting everything right, but no one else would eviscerate the Executive Branch. And it is a necessary vivisection. No one but a President can do it, and no other president but him would.
In his excellent comment above, Josh mentioned how NGOs have had piles of taxpayer dollars shoveled their way to promote things that outrage taxpayers.
“NGO”, of course, is short for ‘Non-Governmental Organization’.
Which makes one wonder: if an organization is funded by taxpayer dollars, how can it call itself “non-government”? At what point is it simply an unofficial, off-the-books arm of the state? I recall an old saying about ‘who pays the piper calls the tune’…
Lobbyists with deep pockets have usurped the rights of a free people by buying our enfranchisement. Curtail the freedom of lobbyist to transform our elected officials into servants of their agenda.
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“Which makes one wonder: if an organization is funded by taxpayer dollars, how can it call itself “non-government”?”
I believe the original aim was to outsource some of the more charitable-leaning functions of government agencies. They assumed that such organizations would have virtuous motives, thus would be capable of rendering such services more effectively.
Such intent has long since been warped.
“Curtail the freedom of lobbyist to transform our elected officials into servants of their agenda.”
Doing this would curtail worthy Catholic efforts as much as it would anyone else. The problem isn’t the amount of money spent to lobby Congress. The problem is the lack of routine transparency in requiring reporting blended with the lack of will by the citizenry to examine such reports.
We are ever at risk of surrendering our republic by virtue of indifference.