NGOs Are Scams; Updated

When anybody in the Establishment thinks about NGOs, they think that the best and the brightest are working night and day to make the world a better place. At least that is what they pretend to think and tell the rest of us. 

When I think of NGOs, I know that they are nothing but scams and an extension of the transnational elite/Deep State, using taxpayer money to run a parallel government that works against ordinary people and feathers the nests of their friends, families, and themselves. 

This is how the whole NGO racket works. One politically powerful figure whose spouse rakes in cash through an NGO. Self-enrichment is not the real issue. The real issue is the political power gained through control of cash for political and social action.

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) February 25, 2025

Even the “best of the best” like Catholic Charities, are, unfortunately, utter scams that take government money to do things that nobody in government could justify. The best example of this is the human trafficking pipeline that flooded this and other countries with “refugees,” provided them with free food, housing and travel, and then preened about their moral superiority to meanies like us. 

Congressmen and Presidents would never admit to funding this human trafficking pipeline, so they instead pay “nonprofits” to do it for them. Who can object to giving money to Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, the Red Cross, or other nice people?

I can. It is all a scam. 

Think of an NGO you hate–say, the World Economic Forum or The Aspen Institute, or perhaps The Atlantic Council. Or maybe the Brookings Institute–and you will find that government money flows into them at prodigious rates. You will also find that they are filled with the friends and family of the people funneling that money. 

The Clinton Foundation? Government money was funneled through it to (not) rebuild Haiti, which remains a s**thole country despite billions supposedly flowing there. 

NGOs are actually, for the most part, GOs that get to hide their expenses in many cases. Did you know that Black Lives Matter and the Soros prosecutors were indirectly funded by USAID? I didn’t until DOGE ferreted it out. 

IT. IS. ALL. A. SCAM. 

Did you know that the “nonprofit” world–which is often extremely profitable for the people who work there or are their vendors–makes up about 10% of our workforce now and about 6% of our GDP?  All of it is subsidized to some extent by the government, and much of it is directly funded by you and me. 

Let that sink in. 13 million people work for nonprofits, and I assure you that few of them are out solving homelessness or working in soup kitchens. 

Almost as bad as the raw numbers is the distorting effect on our policies and national conversations. When Joe Biden funnels billions into “climate change” activism, that distorts our politics by giving a bigger megaphone. When nonprofits fundraise for their causes or write grants, part of the sales pitch is that there is a crisis to solve and that they are the only people to solve it. 

But the truth is that their business model depends upon NOT solving the problems. They get paid to work on them, not solve them. Their money depends on the crisis so they exacerbate it, not improve things. As with the California High-Speed Rail Project, getting the train built would cut off the tens of billions, so they keep puttering and not building the train while draining the taxpayers’ pockets. 

Homelessness? It’s profitable to run a nonprofit “helping” homeless people. San Francisco spends $60,000 per tent served in one homeless camp. Who wants that money flow to stop? Nobody who gets it, that’s for sure. 

It is all a scam. And the Establishment is making bank on it. 

UPDATE: Just saw this from Congressional testimony.

Witness @Tyler2Oneil breaks down the connection between USAID and George Soros 👇 pic.twitter.com/gtMIvXTJK8

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 26, 2025