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originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: seasonal
I love how your so concerned about the half billion dollars going to PP and yet I don't hear you complaining about the 400 billion spent on a new jet program that doesn't work.
A half billion isn't sh*t to spend tax dollars on. That's nothing.
originally posted by: Pyle
originally posted by: liveandlearn
a reply to: dogstar23
I have always wondered how taxpayer dollars are separated. Do they actually take that money out and designate it to other services?
Same way most organisations do it. Separate funds that cant used for other reasons.
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: Teikiatsu
Trouble is we can say that about our tax dollars going to something we don't agree with. Everyone also has a different list of what's ok and what's not.
Certain things we will never settle or agree on either and those are the things better left alone. Changing them just causes trouble so you just do it and society runs smoother for everyone.
Nobody is special and gets to pick and choose because their opinion is worth more than others. It's not much money overall so suck it up.
Otherwise everyone gets to decide what they want to pay for and it all falls apart. Because nobody wants to pay for anyone else but that's how it works.
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: Throes
Stop all taxes. Sounds great man. But there are some government things that are a good thing. You can't just not fund anything. That's just dumb.
It won't work. Have you looked at the world??? I don't think so. You're dreamin.
The best way to definitively assure that tax dollars are not going to PP abortions would be for PP to divest the abortion mills into a separate medical entity funded entirely by private money. If PP does truly keep the funding and budgets separate, this should not be a problem and cause no interruptions in services. The fact of the matter is that they cannot, because the tax money does indeed support the abortion activities.
withholding funds from clinics that also offered abortion services.
originally posted by: seasonal
Story on Planned Parenthood, and their monthly abortion quotas, $500,000,000 in taxpayer $$ every year, and a well paid president Cecile Richards who earns $600,000 annually.
The big lie is that PP is in business for women's health, when in actuality, according to the story, they are in it for the revenue from abortions. Interesting read.
25 years ago Sue Thayer worked for Planned Pas an entry level assistant and was promoted to office manager position for 18 years. For 17 years she believed the big lie. That lie is that PP was protecting women's health and PP was NOT about abortion, but about preventing the need for abortions.
Nearly 25 years ago, Sue Thayer was employed by an Iowa-based Planned Parenthood of the Heartland facility as an entry-level assistant, and soon promoted to an office management position, according to Alliance Defending Freedom.
This position she maintained for 18 years. Her job description included family counseling and staff, medical record and financial oversight duties.
“For 17 years, I believed the big lie – the lie that Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion chain, was all about protecting women’s health,” Thayer told the Washington Times. “Not about abortion, but about “preventing the need for abortion.”
“While taking the lives of nearly 1,000 unborn children every day.
“Planned Parenthood boasts assets of $1.3 billion — not exactly the figure that comes to mind when thinking ‘nonprofit.’ What, you may wonder, does the leader of the top abortion provider in the country make? Cecile Richards makes $600,000 per year — 11 times more than the average American household whose tax dollars fund her paycheck,” she continued.
And PP knows where the real money is and that is in abortion. 46% of there revenue is from abortion, and PP started a mandate in 2013 to meet abortion quotas each month.
She continued: “Planned Parenthood receives $542,000,000 in federal funding, yet asks women who live at or below the poverty line, who depend on federally-funded healthcare to make a donation — proof that Planned Parenthood is much more concerned about its bottom line than women in need.”