jan.vindheim@gmail.com (Jan  Bojer Vindheim) wrote:
>Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:
>> jan.vindheim@gmail.com (Jan  Bojer Vindheim) wrote:
>>
>> >You ask what greenpeace does, except collect money,
>> >I ask you to see their webpages for informationm on their various
>> >campaigns. What is illogical about that ?
>>
>> Their web page is propaganda aimed at increasing contributions.
>>
>> It doesn't show how much goes to "administrative" or "fund
>> raising" costs, compared to the programs they advertise.
>>
>> Pointing to their propaganda as proof that they are not a money
>> collection agency is illogical.
>
>I do not  claim that Greenpeace does not collect money.
>I reply to your original statement
>
>>  What do Greenpeace and the SSCS do,
>>   other than collect huge sums of money?
>
>by pointing to information about their varied acticities around the
>world.

This might be a language problem.  You are taking that
question a if it were meant literally.  It doesn't mean
specifically what the words say though...  it means, something
along the lines of:  "Yeah, sure, they *claim* to do things
other than collect money, and some fools are suckered into
believing them.  But what do they *actually* *devote* *real*
*resources* to, other than collecting money?"

The answer is virtually nothing.  A reasonable figure for
adminstrative overhead would be well below 40%, but those
organizations run well over 80%.

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Floyd L. Davidson           <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@barrow.com