Showing posts with label Catholic Charities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic Charities. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Roe, Charities spawn nonprofit billions lawyering or laundering all the way to their banks


The Destitute remain destitute and deceived
 

Roe v. Wade” and its protagonists and antagonists for 50 years, more or less, have been staging, as with most U.S. ideologues and partisans—

A show of endless distraction aimed at drawing attention away from factional self-indulgence and irrationality and, because of neglect, the critical inferiority (sub-standard) and decrepit state of the U.S. body politic, its leadership and vital institutions.
Some people seem to have a problem with Planned Parenthood. So stop flooding it and other profit-taking nonprofit corporations (including Catholic Charities) with government money that, by design, never solves underlying problems or eliminates destitution.

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lanned Parenthood (Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc or PPFA) is a
Multi-billion-dollar corporation (annual revenue US$1.3 billion)
Multi-millions of which come from the U.S. taxpayers ($530 million such as in Medicaid reimbursements).
The PPFA reportedly owns property including real estate whose combined price is estimated at “$54 million”
Its largest facility, completed in Houston, Texas, in May 2010, is a 78,000-square-foot (7,200-square-metre) structure priced at “$26 million.”
How much education, how much shelter, and how much poverty elimination could all these millions and billions buy? How many able, ethical, practicing physicians (men and women) could be trained and dispatched to communities in desperate need of medical/health services providers?

Get rid of PPFA. Let them pay their own freight. And spend that money on well-monitored public education and success-driven and monitored poverty elimination.

Some people believe, or say they believe, in the separation of church and state (religion and state) in the United States. I know I do. So delink Catholic Charities from the government dole.

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atholic Charities is also a multi-billion dollar profit-taking non-profit corporation (annual revenues $4.7 billion
$2.9 billion of which comes from the U.S. government
Gala take in 2017: “$2.4 million”
Other: “$140 million” in diocesan donations, in-kind contributions, investments, program fees, and community donations.
If these people had even been in the business of ending poverty, poverty would have ended long ago.

Get rid of Catholic Charities. Let the pious—not U.S. taxpayers (and we all pay taxes, even the newest immigrants madmen like to demonize)—pay their own freight. Any perverted institution that has for centuries oppressed native peoples and protected its predator employees should not be paid for, embolden, enabled by citizens of any country to persist in its perversion.  

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oe or not to Roe or is this the compelling issue?
 I believe in human beings’ “right to privacy” and “due process.” I also believe in fundamental human rights as set out in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights among them 
  • the right to shelter
  • the right to meaningful work and a living wage
  • the right to education at least through grade twelve. 
All the battling back and forth and hysterics surrounding “Roe v Wade” (410 U.S. 113, 1973) and “Planned Parenthood v. Casey” (505 U.S. 833, 1992) about “viability,” and when a fetus or tissue becomes a “human being,” and who is or is not culpable in exactly what, is a decades’ long battle of distraction.  

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in “Roe v. Wade” (410 U.S. 113, 1973) that “the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a fundamental ‘right to privacy’ that protects a pregnant woman’s liberty (not an “absolute right” but “balanced against government’s interests in protecting women’s health and protecting prenatal life”) to choose whether or not to have an abortion.”

Revisiting and modifying its legal rulings in 1992 (“Planned Parenthood v. Casey”), the Court “reaffirmed Roe’s holding that a woman’s right to abort a nonviable fetus is constitutionally protected, but abandoned Roe’s trimester framework in favor of a standard based on fetal viability, and overruled Roe’s requirement that government regulations on abortion be subjected to the strict scrutiny standard.”

All these years and all that lawyering and multi-billion-dollar taking have hatched two U.S. nations
on one side of the chasm a hysterical “pro-life” (except for U.S. foreign interference and killing of foreign men, women and children) faction;
on the other side a hysterical “pro-choice”  (except for U.S. breach of global nations’ sovereignty, killing and denying choice to foreign men, women and children) faction.
Ignored, Suppressed, Overlooked

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y the time a person reaches the point of needing an abortion—and long before panderers and politicians, preachers and propagandists and predators start pontificating about abortion — years of work and thousands of steps have been missed; trampled over, not even considered. Some of them…
PARENTING: The imperative of mature parenting and the inalienable right of parents to protect their young.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT: The imperative of the young to adhere to the authority of good parenting, deferring to the parental duty to protect the young. Contrary to the arrogant murmurings of the immature (plus mass media, commercial advertisement, pandering $ psychologists, and ever-lurking predators), children (and the otherwise young) are not miniature adults and they do not know what is best for them nor are they capable of handling adult experiences; and therefore they must not be unleashed by irresponsible adults (or predators and potential predators) who would exploit, neglect or otherwise allow the young to pass into adulthood undisciplined by good parenting, and unlearned, untaught, inexperienced in disciplining and respecting themselves.
Schooling and Societal care, caution and proper REINFORCEMENT: Society at large (including ethical government leadership and community organizations and institutions) and mandatory school curricula should cover, in every grade of the individual’s formative years, the teaching of and exposure to the principles and practice of good relations, respectful interaction between and among people, regardless sex, gender, and/or any other characteristic. People in authority such as teachers, priests, principals, healthcare providers, coaches, scout leaders, managers, heads of the IMF, uncles, aunts, brothers, and others should be kept under watchful (ethical adult) eyes to prevent predators among them from exploiting (assaulting, sexually threatening or titillating) the young and developing.
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ood parenting, good schooling, good society together needs neither corporate charity nor corporate parent planners.
A world without waste, fraud and abuse, without deliberate distraction and deception, without self-serving self-righteous paternalistic billionaire predators — needs no handouts.



Sources
Wikipedia
Roe v Wade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
Planned Parenthood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood
Catholic Charities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Charities_USA
Planned Parenthood v. Casey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey


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Saturday, December 15, 2018

Billion-Dollar pillage locks in Destitution


Uncle Sam-funded Church Proclaims poverty elimination while Stealing income

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onprofit Profit-taking Charity

Sporting the “brand” “Catholic,” the “Catholic Charities USA” reportedly “had revenues of $4.7 billion”—$2.9 billion of which came from the US government” (2010 report). An estimated “$140 million came from donations from diocesan churches,” the rest “from in-kind contributions, investments, program fees, and community donations.” 

In 2017, Catholic Charities’ (Archdiocese of Washington) annual shindig no poor person can afford hauled in $2.4 million.

While the numbers of homelessness and helplessness rise year after year, as more and more Americans find themselves begging on street corners and sleeping under bridges and on sidewalks, CCUSA touts itself as “Working to reduce poverty in America” its long history extending to the 1900s. 

Into the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s “nearly a quarter,” then more than half, then 60 percent, respectively, of the CCUSA’s income came from the Treasury of the United States of America.

According to a Washington Times study, in a three-year period (2012-2015), “the Catholic Church and related Catholic charities and schools collected, at Uncle Sam’s expense, more than $1.6 billion in U.S. contracts and grants in a far-reaching relationship that spans from ‘school lunches for grammar school students’ to contracts across the globe ‘to care for the poor and needy.’”

All that money a criminal’s paradise

Though it is impossible to do so, if we set aside the egregious human crimes such as the rape and brainwashing committed by the pious against children over decades, there is also ample opportunity for and mounting evidence of the pious’ theft to support their other peculiar predilections and perversions. 

And as with rapes, brainwashing and other abuses—the perpetrators tend to get away with their crimes.
 
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riminal “Pious” Inside
Blessed are the poor, for the “righteous” are keeping you poor.
  • ABC News reporting July 9, 2013
A Roman Catholic nun connected with western New York churches steals cash from parishioners’ weekly plate offerings and other checks totaling “$128,000.” 

Her crime was rewarded with 90 days in jail, five years’ probation, 100 community service hours, and an order to pay back the money.

Questions
  1. Isn’t the profession of nuns supposed to be “community service” and how does a nun have time for gambling, as this nun was reportedly doing with her ill-gotten gains?
  2. If she was too poor to fund her gambling habit in the first place, where is she going to get a $128,000 payback?
In other words, she got away with it.
  • Associated Press reporting April 10, 2017
A Monsignor purloins half a million dollars “from a priest retirement home near Philadelphia.” His lawyer said the priest said he was sorry. Federal prosecutors made the charge and, at last report, the priest stayed on. He got away with his crime.
  • USA Today/ KABC reporting December 11, 2018
Two nuns went on traveling, Las Vegas gambling jaunts with thousands of dollars they reportedly embezzled from a Catholic school’s treasury of “tuition, fees and donations.”

The archdiocese reportedly “notified police but doesn’t plan to press charges.” The sisters got away with their crimes.
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lessed are the poor for they shall remain poor as long as the pious are in charge of ending poverty.




Sources
Catholic Charities USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Charities_USA

Washington Times “Catholic Church collects $1.6 billion in U.S. contracts, grants since 2012” Kelly Riddell September 24, 2015 https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/24/catholic-church-collects-16-billion-in-us-contract/

ABC News “Gambling Nun Stole Nearly $130k from Churches Over Five Years” Alexis Shaw
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ny-nun-sentenced-stealing-130k-churches-feed-gambling/story?id=19616948

Gambling 911 “Priest Stole Hundreds of Thousands to Fund Gambling Addiction” https://www.gambling911.com/gambling/priest-stole-hundreds-thousands-fund-gambling-addiction-.html

USA Today “Two nuns accused of stealing thousands of dollars, gambling in Las Vegas” Brett Molina, December 11, 2018 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/11/nuns-allegedly-stole-thousands-dollars-catholic-school/2274509002/

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