The right-wing strategy here is documented in my old paper. In a nutshell, the plan is to use the non-profits as shills in the fragmentation and withering away of big entitlement programs. Like what is happening right now with AFDC/TANF.
mbs
At 02:01 PM 4/30/01 +0100, Max wrote:
>Nobody has pointed out yet, far as I know, that the
>purpose of FBI is to destroy social insurance programs.
>I wrote about this ten years ago, when in Bush I it was
>called "the new paradigm." I will be trying to recycle
>my article, which was an EPI paper and an article in
>Social Policy.
I do not know what Shrub's intentions are, so I cannot say whether th eabove is true. However, government-nonprofit cooperation in the implementation of social welfare policy is well and alive in Western Europe, where gov't support for nonprofits and government social programs in general are far more generous than in this country (for data see our webpage http://www.jhu.edu/~cnp/research.html). From that standpoint, it can be argued that gov't funding of nonprofits are an attempt to save social programs in the era of a massive conservative attack on welfare state.
wojtek