Money Monday, Not Moral Monday

From Civitas

William Barber

Liberal protesters at the General Assembly have been claiming they are acting in the name of morality, but a new Civitas study shows the role played by money. William Barber, NC NAACP President, has said that the seeds of the recent protests were first sown when he and others formed a coalition of liberal groups called Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ). In 2013, HKonJ became the coordinating umbrella organization for the groups protesting on Mondays. But a new Civitas study shows that HKonJ affiliated groups have received more than $100 million in direct state grants in recent years.

Liberal protesters at the General Assembly have been claiming they are acting in the name of morality, but a new Civitas study shows the role played by money – more than $100 million in state funds.

A casual observer might say these organizations seem to be upstanding social institutions. The Community Development Initiative, for example, promises on its web site to “[drive] innovation, investment and action to create prosperous, sustainable communities.” Who could argue with that? The liberal-left has a talent for innocuous names and benevolent mission statements that mislead the public as to an organization’s true mission.

Here’s what the money tells us about these organizations: They’re not all about compassion and social work. Let’s take the Community Development Initiative. Its CEO, Abdul Rasheed, made $222,629 in base compensation in 2011, along with $42,819 in deferred compensation and benefits. That’s $265,448 for one year of work at a nonprofit!

At the Support Center, CEO Lenwood Long made $106,080 in 2011. In 2009, Lenwood’s organization shuffled $845,000 to the Latino Community Credit Union and $847,290 to the First Legacy Community Credit Union. The center also gave $676,000 to Generations Community Credit Union. In its IRS tax filing, the Support Center reported that all of those transactions were made with “interested persons” – that is to say, people who are connected sufficiently to the organization to pose a potential conflict of interest.

When you follow the money, you see that this isn’t about morality at all. It isn’t about the high-minded virtues of justice, or equality. It’s about politics: liberal organizers have depended for years on the largess of an insolvent and bloated state bureaucracy. And as state legislators move to address rampant waste and debt in state government – something the people of North Carolina elected them to do – liberal groups fear that they are about to lose their spot at the public trough.

It’s all about the money.

See the Study & Follow the Money:

Money Monday, Not Moral Monday - Civitas

Resources & Links

Moral Mondays are Really Money Mondays – Here is a link – Just follow the money

http://www.nccivitas.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hkonj-funding.pdf

State Data for this study was obtained at NC OpenBook.

Is it ethical or legal for any White House Administration to use political operatives or 'PACS' to execute official federal programs and government business?

‘President Obama's "Organizing for Action"; (a political PAC group), reportedly spent seven figures on TV ads (in California, Florida and Texas) claiming, "Americans are already seeing the benefits" of health-care reform.’ – (WSJ.com)

That means the White House Administration is using Political PAC money and staff; a group that is specifically biased; to advertise and ‘promote’ the rolling out of official federal law, programs and legislation.

Also in June, the administration and an allied nonprofit, Enroll America, described how hundreds of thousands of ‘community organizers’ will sign up seven million uninsured people for health coverage, once registration for subsidized insurance starts Oct. 1.

Administration figures and supporters have long said that ObamaCare would become more popular as time went by. It hasn't. A June 2 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found 37% thought the health-care plan was a good idea while 49% thought it a bad idea. On May 10, 2010, about two months after ObamaCare passed, it was 38% good idea, 44% bad.

Meanwhile, the temporary reprieve from the employer mandate will not stop many businesses from preparing their people for when the company stops providing insurance. They'll also continue limiting more part-time employees to fewer than 30 hours a week, in order to avoid being snared by this provision in the law. I have personal friends and family members who are either part-time or full-time who have seen their hours cut to below 30. Their employers have no intention of changing this policy because the problems associated with compliance to the ACA law is not fixed, but only postponed. This delay does not fix the problem; it just delays the bad effects it will ultimately bring about; at least until after the 2014 elections - how convenient!

I have a good friend in New York who works as a ‘sole proprietor’. His company is a consulting firm with only one employee – himself. He just received a letter last week from his private insurance company that ObamaCare is requiring that they cancel his medical insurance policy as of December 31 this year. He is being forced into the ObamaCare Health Insurance Exchange; which is fully expected to provide less coverage and will cost him more money. So much for President Obama’s promise “if you like the insurance and doctor you currently have; you can keep them”.

Political problems still loom. Though ObamaCare provides generous subsidies to the uninsured, they still have to pay something each month. How many uninsured believe their insurance will be free? An analysis published earlier this year in Contingencies, the American Academy of Actuaries magazine, concluded that Americans earning as little as $25,000 can expect to pay higher premiums under ObamaCare—even with the law's subsidies. Also, many of those lower income earners are already seeing their incomes cut due to the fact that their employers are slashing their hours in order to ‘afford’ the government mandate (as stated above). With less income and higher costs for medical insurance and coverage – ObamaCare will certainly be terrible for the very people it proposes to help.

The administration cannot spin its way out of these problems; whether they believe it or not.

Nevertheless the White House ads are less important than the quality of the product they tout—and ObamaCare is a lemon.

Resources & Links

The ObamaCare Spin Machine Revs Up - WSJ

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Administration seeks help from librarians,NFL to promote ObamaCare

NFL says no to promoting ObamaCare;teachers, librarians take up the slack

NPR Runs Ad-like 'Report' on GroupPromoting ObamaCare - Enroll America is a liberal organization working to get as many people sign up for ObamaCare as possible

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