The chief executive of Oxfam has hit back at the storm of criticism surrounding the charity’s sex exploitation scandal in Haiti, claiming attacks on the organisation are “out of proportion to the level of culpability”.
No? Really?
Oxfam is a vile organisation that has been busy stealing our money and pissing it away on, among other things, the CEO’s massively inflated salary. Having stolen our money, not only have its employees been busy exploiting local populations, it has been busy attacking capitalism and engaging in other standard leftist campaigns. It is politically partisan and the “one-off” is nothing of the sort. This kind of corruption is endemic in the charity sector – just ask Linda Polman. Oxfam got caught is all. And, yes we are filled with revulsion at you, your organisation and everything you represent. Your apologies are meaningless.
So, yes, we are gunning for the bastards. I would like to think that the government finally sees sense and stops funding this evil, parasitic sector.
In an interview with the Guardian, Mark Goldring repeated his apology for Oxfam’s failings and acknowledged that major reforms were needed. But warning that the controversy has already affected vital donations, he accused critics of “gunning” for the charity and said some were motivated in part by an anti-aid agenda.
Damn right. Trade not aid is what developing countries need. End this evil circus once and for all. And if it has affected donations, that is a good thing. While these scumbags take our money by force despite us not necessarily supporting their aims, no one should be giving the bastards one penny piece in voluntary donations.
“The intensity and the ferocity of the attack makes you wonder, what did we do?” he said.
Would you like a list?
Stop all foreign aid now. Stop funding the misnamed NGOs now. All of them.
“I would like to think that the government finally sees sense and stops funding this evil, parasitic sector.”
Fat chance.
Posing as a charity while being funded by the taxpayer should be a crime. Oxfam are in the business of perpetuating poverty because without it they would all have to get real jobs.
Sadly, I agree. While NGOs provide useful and lucrative sinecures for retired politicians, the money tap will never be turned off.
It’s not just retired politicians – there’s a whole industry here for posh white kids demonstrating their right on credentials while they do their gap year. The very same oiks who whine about colonialism 😉
Well, yes, I know this to be true. I live in hope though. Ever the eternal optimist at heart.
May Gov’t Refuses to Consider Paring Back £13 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
The Department for International Development (DfID) rejected an online petition signed by over 50,000 people so far, calling to scrap the target to spend at least 0.7 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on foreign aid, as it will see spending rise to £16 billion by 2020 and “could be better spent at home”
It is not the place of the state to take my money by force and give it to corrupt political bodies such as OXFAM, NSPCC and such.
Furthermore, once Gov’t (taxpayers) money accepted they are beholden to Gov’t
For several years I’ve watched as public sentiment slowly changed from one of trust and support to suspicion, resentment to outright hostility. And I applauded!
That one about the children and the fat lady with the ethnic clothing flipped many. Cameron / Clegg’s committing us to 0.7% inflamed so many more and when their salary structure became public knowledge it finally dawned on taxpayers that they are being shafted.
Add to that the scandals surrounding those pop stars and their Save Africa etc., and trickle became flood.
My areas of interest involve duplication; Oxfam is just one of dozens doing the same thing. Exceeding their charter; again a huge number of them stray into areas that were not included in their founding document – the very thing that enabled them to register as a charity and collect funds from the public. But greatest of all is how little actually gets to the front line; some are – hand on heart – less than 25%!!!
At an organisational level their priorities are survival of the charity and that means getting as many people as possible to make bequests in their Will as well as doing everything possible, including lying and making themselves seem useful to governments, to get funding directly from the government.
To do this they compare their salaries, terms and conditions to benchmarks in industry and commerce, not to NGO’s, not public services and certainly not to similar bodies in other countries. So high basic salaries, generous perks, 5 week paid holidays and fully index linked final salary schemes.
Now some of them are earning more than people who manage large businesses employing thousands and generating wealth.
This business of abusing their power in 3rd world countries is trivial relative to the bigger picture. But it has empowered more to come forward, seems this behaviour extends to even getting accepted to work as a volunteer in their charity shops!
And why might you ask would anyone want to degrade a volunteer? Well dearest LR it’s because there’s money in doing even that. You get a valuable thing handed in at the counter, you price it as worth pennies, you buy it at that price, then take it home and flog it on eBay.
Oh and next time you pop into a charity shop, do keep your eyes peeled for charity boxes with a broken seal.
I’ve quoted it before and I’ll quote it again:
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
Rarely has it been more apposite.
… where the offense is, let the great ax fall.
Shakespeare