ifallalot said:
trevorbc said:
VonMeister said:
Once again you and Groms dad have no idea what you are talking about. Fox news tells you the government pays for abortions so you believe it.
There is something called cost allocation. It is basic accounting. Planned Parenthood gets federal funds and non federal funds (unrestricted funds). The federal funds are allocated only to allowable costs, abortion is not an allowable cost. When they get audited, if they used federal funds for abortion those cost would be disallowed and would have to be repaid. Abortion related costs get allocated to the unrestricted (non-federal) funds.
Another example would be a non-profit that gets federal funds to carry out some public need. The non-profit also gets donations. (unrestricted funds) They have a fund raising cocktail party. They allocate the costs of the cocktail party to their unrestricted funds because you cannot use federal funds to purchase alcohol. Your argument is that they do use federal funds for alcohol just because they had a cocktail party and also happen to receive federal funds. See your logic is flawed. Fox news does not go into this kind of detail because their brain dead audience doesn't want to hear it. It doesn't fit your narrative. Facts don't matter to you anymore, or maybe never did?
Word salad and semantics
Planned Parenthood gets federal funds, and Planned Parenthood is an abortion provider. It’s really that simple
You can justify it all you want, but any creative accounting doesn’t excuse the facts that a company is stealing money from wage earners in order to operate
It isn't creative accounting. It is basic accounting. An organization can do more than 1 thing. Funders of that organization want their money used for their priorities. Therefore they have to do cost allocation. Google: 2 CFR 200.405 Allocable costs.
Time and materials and space cost, and electicity and every cost associated with abortion gets charged to their unrestricted funds. The federal funds are only used for activities that are allowable under that federal award. Things like providing screening, testing etc. By defunding Planned Parenthood (stopping federal funds) you aren't stopping abortions because they don't use federal funds for abortion anyway. You are cutting their funding for many of the basic health services they provide to low income people. (the allowable cost under the federal award from HHS)
Indirect costs are another discussion however if you think something as simple as cost allocation is creative accounting I'm not going to go there.
The bottom line is that federal funds aren't used for abortion. That is a fact. (unless someone does something illegal) But the reality is that organizations that receive federal funds (at least organizations like planned parenthood) get monitored and audited endlessly so if someone was doing something illegal it would result in disallowed costs. Because PP is under such scrutiny they don't mess around.
Again, why is it that fox news and other right wing media lie to their viewers? You should be asking yourself that now that you know the facts.