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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Steven:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Well, in this country social assistance has been in recent years and
decades handled by private charities or by government funded non profits.
This is not somethng that can be blamed, exclusively, or even primarily, on the
current <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
administration as the practice goes back decades, at least to the 1980s and
even earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>[WS:] This is mixing apples and
oranges. Government funded nonprofits and private foundations are two different
things. Foundations are merely a funding source, and a minor one.
Total private giving in the US, most of which is not foundations grants but individual
giving to religion, is barely above 1% of the GDP in total, which is a drop in
a bucket of what government spends on education and social programs (about 15%
on social programs and 5.7% on education, which is over 20 % of the GDP.)
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>So foundation giving is really tiny
comparing to combining operating budgets of service delivery organizations, a
great share of which are indeed nonprofit. What is more, foundations generally
do not cover operating expenses of social programs (which are funded either by
government, sales or program service charges) – they tend to fund pilot programs,
innovations, arts, research etc, as well a great deal of programs in the
developing countries – which is a much more effective use of their
tiny (comparing to the need) resources. What is more, they fund those
programs from their *<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>investment income</span></b>*
i.e. returns they receive from investing their assets, rather than by
distributing the assets themselves. Therefore, I found the remark citing
$500 in assets in the context of reproach for not distributing it to the needy
laughable, Dwayne. Foundations do not distribute their assets! This
would be like GM selling their plants and machinery to cover their operating
expenses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>In short, the main player in social service
provision is government not private philanthropy. The latter is mainly a
conservative myth, and I find it ironic that the self-styled radicals swallow
that myth wholesale. OTOH, I do not find it surprising. This
society needs demons to function, and finds its demons according to the ideological
orientation: the right finds it abroad, in the UN and the liberal
establishment, the left finds it in the middle class and the liberal establishment,
and most find in the government. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Wojtek<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>PS. Can I ask you guys a favor NOT to
post HTML formatted text to this list? MS Outlook by default assumes the
same format for the reply as in the original message, and it is difficult to
remove.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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