Bono’s charity, ONE, is the poster child for feel-good limousine liberal activism. In 2008, they took in $14 million in donations, and disbursed a mere $184,000 (or 1%) to charities. A whopping $8 million (or 57%) of those donations went to executive and employee salaries. Meanwhile, ONE spends a bunch of cash sending expensive schwag to New York newsrooms to make them help convince the government to cough up $6 billion of taxpayer cash to fight AIDS and tuberculosis in Africa.
That’s the Berkeley Way right there: take in donations, take a sixty percent cut for yourself off the top, and spend most of the rest on stuff on Starbucks coffee and Moleskine notebooks to woo reporters. ... Now, I’m not slamming charity here. But what Boner and the other limousine liberals just like him are practicing isn’t charity. It’s self-congratulatory (and lucrative) grandstanding.
One percent actually went to charity? Seriously?
(Hat tip to my friend Michael Silence over at the No Silence Here blog.)
Some of my earlier blog posts on this general subject:
Pretend Charity and Generosity
Giving Away Other People's Money Doesn't Mean That You're Generous
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