Government targeting philanthropy


Why isn't anyone fighting this?

Another day with a lot of links and a couple of really good article ideas and very limited time.

You'll have to wait on the articles I'm afraid, but I will hammer out the links and a few comments.

First up is this City Journal piece.

Yet American generosity is under fire. A growing number of activists and politicians argue that foundations should meet diversity targets in their giving and on their staffs. If foundations fail to diversify “voluntarily,” threaten the race, ethnicity, and gender enforcers, they risk legislation requiring them to do so. In other words, the diversity police, having helped bring on the subprime meltdown through mortgage-lending quotas, now want to fix philanthropy. And instead of rebuffing this power grab, the leaders in the field have rolled over and played dead.

This is a bit more than the standard power grab I think. Certain politicos aren't content with controlling your life, they want the "blessings" flowing from them and only on their terms.

All good things come from government approval?

Just imagine if you can't give to your favorite charity because it hasn't been authorized.

Scary stuff.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - January 26, 2009 at 01:06 PM  Tag


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