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Mississippi Office of the State Auditor
We investigated three non-profits that received government grants from the Department of Health so they could administer HIV-AIDS tests to Mississippians. Over $850,000 was given to these...
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As we were discussing the other day, this is similar to the NGO national playbook. It is bribery, and it needs to be stopped. They just think they've found a loophole that makes it okay. So we have to close the 17'ing loophole.
That would be a bad idea for medical innovation. A lot of good stuff comes out of non-profit hospitals.
Hospital is a little different but when Politician A sets up a foundation, that politician gets put on a very important committee, that politician hires his wife to run the foundation and the foundation pays her an annual salary of 1 million dollars a year then some foreign owned company is needing a vote on a bill donates to that foundation then the wife calls the politician and say, this company just made a contribution to the foundation. That has to stop and the government giving money to any foundation and there is no control of the money once the foundation gets it must stop as well. Even a hospital can abuse it. Chances are the money is going back to the political parties. It has to stop.
Oh yes. Conflicts of interest need to be exposed and snuffed out wherever and whenever. Any government grant should have reporting/transparency requirements to help prevent misuse of funds granted for legit purposes. If there is no transparency, the check should never be written.
And children’s lives are saved. Well, except in Baton Rouge
30 Million Dollars of 90 settlement for legal fees, wow if I read that right
Lot of people would still contribute to that research especially if they were taxed less
Bc it didn’t happen. It never happens. It’s all good people doing the lords work.
Yeah man. Research labs are real equipped to market themselves for funding from the general public*** What planet do you live on?
It’s one of two things:
It’s a GD tweet limited by characters you 17 ing moton
How exactly do you think they get funded? Do you think the gubment just goes and finds them and says hey I bet you need some money.
When more info comes out will you admit you are wrong or just go into hiding like normal?
Yes that's pretty much how it works. You have the technical type presenting cases to the technical types in the govt that distribute funds based on need, viability, etc. If you asked these people to ask for private dollars they'd never see cent bc they don't speak the same language.
St Jude says, “hi”.
65% of research is done by private dollars so your first reply to me was BS. Take a seat.
They get north of 100M of federal funding and most research programs don't have a massive ALSAC organization to do the fundraising for them.
If you think the private market would replace the 35-45 percent of funding that would go away in your world then you have no grasp of how most people like to spend their money.
They bring in 3 billion of donations a year. Just saying research can be done without federal dollars.
Oh sure it can to an extent. That's not my point. My point is you can't just make the federal side go poof and expect it to be replaced privately and responsibly. Government distributed funds should be viewed as a service to get dollars to high priority areas that private dollars likely will overlook due to near term commercial viability etc. Healthy criticism and oversight should occur to make sure they aren't spending dollars on nonsense. But if we go pure private then we'd likely have a ton of competitors for a better ozempic to charge 1k a month for than subsidizing basic science research that can advance humanity's knowledge on how diseases work and beyond that likely won't guarantee an immediate and/or massive ROI.
I’m not saying we should get rid of federal research dollars. Also not saying we need them. I don’t know a ton about why/why not to keep them. Just pointing out that it can be done without federal dollars in some instances. People donate so much to st Jude for a few reasons: they are researching something people feel strongly about, people believe at Jude is actually making a difference, st Jude/alsac do a great job fundraising.
I know you aren't suggesting that. Other guy is and lives a the simple world of good/bad and doesn't have a nuanced thought in his head. Or at least the character he plays on this board doesn't.
People were hired to oversee these grants. We came in and fired a bunch of them, now we are surprised when stuff doesn’t go right?
