{"id":26512,"date":"2015-09-15T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26512"},"modified":"2015-09-15T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:51:41","slug":"the-circle-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26512","title":{"rendered":"The Circle Of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is the federal government giving money to groups that lobby the federal government? This defies common sense. It is, however, a neat deal for those involved–legislators get money for their political campaigns<\/a> in return for channeling federal money to the organizations that sponsor\u00a0the Political Action Committees<\/a> (PAC) that give them the money. It’s a good deal if you are part of it, and a bad deal for America and American<\/a> taxpayers.<\/p>\n

Investor’s Business Daily<\/a> posted an article yesterday about this practice.<\/p>\n

The article points out the insanity\u00a0of what is going on:<\/p>\n

Latest lobbying<\/a> disclosure documents indicate Planned Parenthood<\/a> spends at least $2 million a year directly lobbying Congress<\/a> and state legislatures. And this year, as PP fights to retain its umbilical cord \u2014 no pun intended \u2014 to the Federal Treasury, the number’s going way up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the official lobbying expenditures don’t include tens of millions of other political spending. According to a recent analysis by Conservative News<\/a> Service, “Planned Parenthood’s affiliates spent $26 million on public policy this past year, while the national office spent $31.3 million on building ‘advocacy capacity.'”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mission of all this spending? The answer is obvious: to persuade Congress to continue to provide the organization with federal tax dollars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So what we have here is an organization that receives at least half a billion dollars a year from taxpayers, and some of that money is used to lobby Congress to give them more taxpayer money.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The icing on the cake is that the money is borrowed from Japan and China<\/a>. We have to pay interest on it.<\/p>\n

The article details the problem:<\/p>\n

Is it any surprise that under this racket it has become almost impossible to cut the budget or to balance receipts with expenditures? This is a common practice. The unions do it. The legal public aid community does it. Welfare organizations do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be fair, it isn’t just left-wing groups that receive taxpayer dollars and lobby. So do corporations. Defense contractors run lobbying campaigns year-round to persuade Congress to spend more money on this weapon or that. Companies that have received the bulk of the funding for the Export Import Bank<\/a> are bankrolling the PR campaign to keep the institution from closing down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We will never curb government spending<\/a> as long as we allow this kind of abuse of our system. The problem is not lobbying–that is and should remain legal. The problem is government-supported lobbying. That is ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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