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| Liberals to Waste $80M on new 'thinktanks' | |
| 2005-08-18 | |
| Armavirumque: commentary "At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades." I don't understand why these wealthy liberals don't simply give their money to existing think tanks. The authory of the article makes a similar point below. Mr. Stein must be a very persuasive fellow to have convinced all these donors to ante up $1 million apiece for this initiative. It would be a most difficult task to emulate this achievement on the conservative side. Still, one has a sense that he has pulled a fast one on these wealthy liberals. He claims that conservative groups outspend progressive groups by some $295 million per year to just $75 million, a disparity that is not even remotely close to the real facts of the situation. For example, in a recent year the following liberal and progressive groups spent the following sums: · The American Civil Liberties Union, $60 million; · The Urban Institute, $80 million; · the Natural Resources Defense Council, $55 million; · World Wildlife Fund, $118 million; · the NAACP, $40 million. And this listing only scratches the surface, as it does not include such groups as the Urban League, the Sierra Club, National Organization for Women, National Abortion Rights Action League, Alliance for Justice, the Environmental Defense Fund, La Raza, and others too numerous to mention or even to count. Nor does it include the various university programs designed to propagandize in favor of the progressive agenda. By any reasonable measure, progressive groups outspend conservative groups on an annual basis by a factor of at least 10 to 1.
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| Posted by:mhw |
| #20 Hey, I'll think for them for only $60,000,000.00 |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-08-18 22:19 |
| #19 Hey BH, "..poor gay black homeless children.." What about the poor, gay, illegal alien, HIV+, black, drug addicted adult prisoners on death row who need kidney, heart, and liver transplants. American taxpayers are too greedy and selfish to step up to the plate. |
| Posted by: Dexter M. Duck 2005-08-18 21:41 |
| #18 Who is saving the baby ducks (approx. .50 cents per duck)? |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-18 18:40 |
| #17 Did someone mention beer? |
| Posted by: Ted Kennedy 2005-08-18 17:56 |
| #16 And now the Rantburgian version; let's think in how many M1 Abrams could be bought with those 80 wasted million dollars. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-08-18 17:08 |
| #15 Lets think about how many starving kids in Soudan could be saved with those 80 million bucks. (Let's the libs take a dose of their medicine) |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-08-18 16:55 |
| #14 Mr Jonathan How about suing the university if you are not getting what you paid for? (ie you spent your stepson to be teached engineering or law not to be indoctrinated on your money |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-08-18 16:52 |
| #13 It doesn't matter how much they spend, they will still be dumbfucks. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-08-18 16:09 |
| #12 Might they start with supply and demand? |
| Posted by: Alfred Marshall 2005-08-18 16:07 |
| #11 I think I can help with this. Here goes: Socialism doesn't work. See, that was free! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-08-18 15:48 |
| #10 What good is it for liberal think tanks when liberals have no new ideas? Sounds like expensive piss-and-bull sessions to me. Let them waste their dough. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-18 15:05 |
| #9 By any reasonable measure, progressive groups outspend conservative groups on an annual basis by a factor of at least 10 to 1. Sounds like par for the course to me. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-08-18 14:32 |
| #8 Does Mr. Stein get a finders fee from Democracy Alliance for |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-08-18 14:26 |
| #7 These people should save their money. The Left already has an enormous network of think tanks; they're called "universities," and thousands of American parents pay to keep them in business. (Feeling kind of grumpy about this -- stepson goes off to college next week to have his skull emptied by his nihilistic professors. Bah.) |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2005-08-18 13:48 |
| #6 *sniff* Just think how many poor gay black homeless children you could be feeding with this money instead of spending it on an elitist institution. Don't you have any feelings? |
| Posted by: BH 2005-08-18 13:20 |
| #5 If there are any liberal millionaires that need someone to analyze and report what they are doing wrong I will do so at half that price. I will also throw in a pony and a pamphlet âWelcome to the dark side: a guide to recovering liberals.â |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-08-18 13:09 |
| #4 Anon - No matter what you teach them and how much money and time is spent in the effort, the fact remains that you cannot give them the common sense and credibility they lack. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-08-18 11:31 |
| #3 Maybe some of the smarter ones have figured they need to set up something like community colleges for democrat leaders to study the things they are terrible at, like history, economics, tax accounting, petroleum economics, agribusiness, foreign policy, military science, statistics, general science, environmental studies, chemistry, physics, and political science. In that order, and taught by republicans. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-08-18 11:28 |
| #2 This is great news! My stock in Rent-a-Brain™ is going to go through the roof! |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-08-18 11:13 |
| #1 ...progressive groups outspend conservative groups on an annual basis by a factor of at least 10 to 1. And yet the republicans hold the house, senate, soon to hold the SCOTUS, white house, most governerships, etc.... This is the true definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-08-18 11:00 |
