Saturday, September 25, 2010

Bono's anti-poverty charity still hasn't found what it's looking for

Poor people:

Bono's anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money it raises reaches the needy.
The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to good causes (1.2 per cent).

The figures published by the New York Post also show that £5.1million went towards paying salaries.
Glad to see that a bunch of lefties have well paying jobs, though.

Via I Want A New Left, who pretty well nails it:
This seems to be the way redistributions work: pay off all the redistributors first, and the tiny scraps that are left go to those they're trying to help.
Word.  Of course, it's pretty hard to find the poor. 
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

4 comments:

  1. bluesunSeptember 25, 2010 at 8:24 PM

    I like the music (and I'm somewhat ashamed to say that I own all of it), but Bono is kinda an ass...

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  2. PaladinSeptember 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM

    I guess we shouldn't really expect any better from this lot.

    These are the same people who put on enormous concerts with pyrotechnics and laser light shows, the performers all arriving on individual private jet airliners, all to raise awareness for "Green Energy" and "Global Warming".

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  3. SarahSeptember 25, 2010 at 11:48 PM

    Well, at least they're preventing more people from being poor by, y'know, paying them big bucks to pretend to help the poor. If you look at it *that* way...

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  4. TJPSeptember 26, 2010 at 12:21 AM

    But it's totally different when the government does it, because those people work for free, right?

    CLOSE TAG SARCASM

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