allowing the IRS to pick and choose charities is wrong.
all groups should fund their own charities without US government
assistance, approval or recognition.
example:
Nonprofit organizations led by former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair and wife, Cherie, have received nearly $1.5-million in grants
from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in recent
years, U.K. daily The Telegraph reports.
The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, which assists female
entrepreneurs in developing countries, confirmed last week that it
got
$625,965 from USAID in the 2011-12 budget year for a project to help
women in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Ghana launch businesses. The agency
awarded Mr. Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative about $844,000 in
2011. The British government has turned down funding requests from
Mr.
Blair’s organization.