United States – There used to be a saying in Washington, DC: “a billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon, you’re talking real money.”  Today, it’s more like a hundred billion here and a hundred billion there.  But to the American poor and working poor, a thousand here and a thousand there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.  A thousand is real money to the average Adam.  So is $500.  So is $250.  So is $125.  When you have $zero, $1 is something to rejoice over.  And if someone kindly gives you $1, you marvel at them.  Here I consider some small sums of cash, wrongly given, and wrongly received.  But let’s begin with some larger sums wrongly given, and wrongly received.

According to Americans United for Life, Congress appropriated $528,000,000 for Planned ‘Hood for 2014.  In the same year, Planned ‘Hood had $127,100,000 in spare cash—mad money—Excess Revenue Over Expenses (The relevant document, Abortion-Inc.pdf, is no longer found at aul.org. This more recent aul.org page is similar, but is for 2016-2017).  That is 24% more than they need.  Why is Congress giving them that much too much?  Why is not Congress cutting the excess—the spare cash that Planned ‘Hood has lying around—the $127 million per year that they certainly do not need?  To an American working poor, that is a ‘load of money; Congress could put it to much better use than just letting Planned ‘Hood sit on it.

Of course, Planned ‘Hood does not absolutely need so much as a dime.  They would be better off eternally to give everyone their final checks and notices, lock the doors, go home, and never come back.  In the above, I refer to the operating cash that Planned ‘Hood says that it needs.

It seems that Planned ‘Hood has so much extra cash lying around that it gives some of it away, not back to the Treasury, where it belongs, but to Democrat office holders, candidates and organizations.  Here we are going to look into something that stinks to high heaven: kickbacks consisting of 40% taxpayer cash to Democrat office holders, candidates and organizations, all laundered in the blood of innocents by Planned ‘Hood.  Let’s consider a few more numbers.

In the same PDF, Americans United for Life reports that the $528 million that Congress appropriates to Planned ‘Hood every year makes up 40% of Planned ‘Hood’s total yearly revenue.  According to opensecrets.org, Planned ‘Hood spent $9,271,411 on political contributions, outside spending, and lobbying expenses during the two year, 2013-2014 cycle.  40% ($3,708,564) of that $9,271,411 is from the taxpayers!  Not chump change.

Of the $9,271,411 that P‘Hood spent, $1,634,162 went to buy lobbyists.  Over those two years, they lobbied for or against some 172 House Resolutions, in accordance with the will of Planned ‘Hood (see opensecrets.org lobbying).  You, the taxpayers paid 40% ($653,664) of P‘Hood’s lobbyist bill.

Of the $9,271,411 that P‘Hood spent, $6,058,338 went to outside spending.  This, I think, is mainly for political ads.  All of Planned ‘Hood’s Independent Expenditures of $6,058,338 were spent on the 2014 Federal Elections.  Most of it was spent in general election, to either oppose or support 36 candidates:

$1,854,476 was spent to support Democrats.
$0 was spent to oppose Democrats.
$13,390 was spent to support Republicans
$2,873,201 was spent to oppose Republicans.

The the above is found at opensecrets Outside Spending Summary.  The salient figure is this: Planned ‘Hood spent only $13,390 to support Republicans.  That is only two tenths of one percent.  P‘Hood spent 99.8% of that $6,058,338 to either support Democrats, or to oppose Republicans.  For whom, and against whom does P‘Hood put its bloodstained money to work?

For Democrats, and against Republicans.  This is an indirect kickback to Democrats for supporting P‘Hood.  The money is not given directly to the Democrat candidates or to their PAC’s.  But P‘Hood spends it on what the candidates themselves or their PAC’s would spend it on.  So it is a sort of indirect kickback.  And 40% ($2,423,335) of it is from the taxpayers.

Of the $9,271,411 that P‘Hood spent, $1,578,911 went to direct political contributions.  40% of it ($631,564) came from tax dollars.  Some of this went to organizations, such as Protecting Choice In California, EMILY's List Non-Federal, Battleground Texas, DNC Services Corp, The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and America Votes Action Fund.  None of the $1,578,911 went to Republican political organizations.  By opensecrets.org’s calculations, $679,596 of the $1,578,911 went directly to candidates, or to their PAC’s.

Specifically, P‘Hood contributed this $679,596 to 152 Democrat Senators and Congressmen, and to only one Republican, a Congressman.  The average contribution was $4442.  The one GOP Congressman (name redacted for his sake) accepted $2823.  Boehner accepted nothing.  No GOP Senator (including McConnell) accepted a dime of P‘Hood’s bloodstained kickbacks.  A bit of good news for all of my readers whose sentiment toward the GOP is negative.  My sentiment toward the GOP is positive; I know that there is nowhere else to turn! Top of column 2 ↑