Newsletter  - March 2025

 Do you remember this song?  Money makes the world go around,

                                              The world go around,
                                              The world go around
                                              Money makes the world go around,
                                             It makes the world go round.

That is the song from “Cabaret” which was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb.

What an appropriate song for Washington D.C. and our national government.

So much of what goes on in our nation’s capital has to do with getting money to someone or other.  Of course, there will be money movement when running the government and making sure that the operation and management of government proceeds as it is supposed to.  However, the problem arises when all sorts of organizations and people are getting the people’s money with virtually no oversight and basically no accounting.  

The President, and not unelected judges, is the administrator of the executive branch of the government just as a governor is the administrator of state government.  It is the responsibility of an administrator to make sure that laws and rules are being followed and that money and resources are being managed for the benefit of the people.

DOGE, the new department in the federal government (Department of Government Efficiency) has been tasked with determining how money is being spent and how personnel are producing.  When it comes to personnel being let go, people are upset about the termination of federal workers. It is very convenient that so many people do not remember that Presidents Clinton and Obama both terminated hundreds of thousands of federal workers when they were in the Oval Office.  Do you remember any mass protests at that time?  Oh, that’s right.  The press barely wrote about it.  

To the surprise of no one who has been paying attention our tax dollars are going everywhere except back to the taxpayer who needs them. As one example, DOGE has been uncovering massive wasteful, unethical and phony payments to NGOs (non-government organizations) both foreign and domestic.  

It turns out that George Soros and his organization (Open Society) has perfected the art of robbing the American taxpayer by using non-profit organizations.  This gives him the means and the money to advance his progressive agenda.  

Elon Musk, an advisor to DOGE, is suggesting that when one of these NGOs is established, the NGO can then lobby the government for millions in grants and additional forms of aid.  There is little to no accountability.

When asked how many NGOs there are Musk thinks the total number is in the millions but when talking about large NGOs, he believes there are tens of thousands.  Now, according to available data, there are approximately 1.5 million NGOs currently in operation in the United States. 
This number does not directly reflect “approval” by the federal government.  NGOs primarily register with the Internal Revenue Service to gain tax-exempt status under Section 501(c) (3). Therefore, the NGO will not need specific government approval to operate.  

Apparently, the system can be hacked which is how an NGO can get started.  Musk believes that Soros is a system hacker and he was a genius at arbitrage. (the simultaneous buying and selling of securities, currency or commodities in different markets or in derivative forms in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset.)  Soros figured out that he could leverage a small amount of money and create a nonprofit.  Then the NGO can lobby politicians to send large amounts of money to that nonprofit.  It is conceivable to use a $10 Million donation to create a nonprofit and leverage that into a billion-dollar NGO.

It is useful to remember that NGOs in the United States are qualified as exempt from state and federal taxes.  Their legal status means that NGO’s do not have to pay tax on the income (funding) they receive.  If NGOs want to be exempted from federal income taxes, they need to apply to the Internal Revenue Service.  Many NGOs per the Internal Revenue Code are eligible for a tax-exempt status.  The type of benefits depends on the type of NGO and the type of activity.

NGOs that are organized for political purposes receive limited tax exemptions only for income received from contributions solicited from the general public, memberships dues or fundraising events.  Another feature of tax-exempt status is that contributions to some of these groups may be tax deductible. 

The problem with NGOs is that taxpayer funds are going to all kinds of organizations which the taxpayer has had no choice about.  Your money is going to places whose agenda you might very much disagree with.  

Recently, DOGE has exposed huge amounts of wasteful, unethical and fraudulent payments to dubious foreign and domestic NGOs.  It is sad that so many people, especially elected officials, are not angrier about the waste of taxpayer money.

It is interesting to note that this same kind of taxpayer money funneling to all sorts of causes, goes on at the local level.  There are members of various committees throughout the state that also have access to public funds that no one has voted on.    

In a democracy, the people are supposed to be in control.  If that is actually the case, then evidence of misappropriation of funds should be welcomed and gladly corrected.  The loud protests about DOGE might make a person think that the powers that be in Washington D.C. do not want to have honest recording with a clear knowledge of where the taxpayer’s money is going.  Perhaps, the powers that be do know where the money is going.  The concern is that the taxpayer might also find out.