Read
this item which describes the problems Big Brothers and Big
Sisters charitible organization has with managing its charitable funds.
Substantial fraud, waste and abuse abound. Gives one pause as to what
charities we should support. Note that there is a push on to have the
government provide more intensive oversight to assure such problems are
mitigated. http://www.washingtonguardian.com/big-brothers-big-sisters-big-waste
Now consider this government run
program which exists on the backs of honest, hard working taxpayers.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) made Medicare over
payments of at least $543 million between 2007 and 2010 which has not
and cannot be recovered because it cannot determine to whom those over
payments were made. The CMS estimates that it has an over
payment recovery rate of 80% and claims that rate is highly
effective. Get that? They think that blowing only 20% of their taxpayer
funding is a good deal. http://www.washingtonguardian.com/call-collector
So, in the first case a private
charity cannot document how its money is spent while in the second case
neither can the government. Yet the proposed solution to problems with
the first is to subject it to more control by the second. An oxymoron
if I ever saw one. Unfortunately these two examples pale in comparison
to the total amounts of charitable gifts and confiscated taxes that are
unaccounted for every year. But, the scale of government fraud, waste
and abuse of forcefully collected tax payer monies far exceeds that of
freely given donations to private charities. Before the government
claims it is best positioned to oversee the accounting practices of
private charities it needs to get its own house in order, something
unlikely to happen in our lifetime, if ever.
George Burns
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