In her 1938 autobiography, Margaret Sanger discusses her keynote address at a Silver Lake Ku Klux Klan Rally.
Posted on 06/10/2006 10:50:23 AM PDT by wagglebee
America is the land of entrepreneurs. Those that are successful find a formula that works and then replicate that formula many times to build an empire. We have seen this happen in the fast-food industry, in retail stores, in computers and many other venues.
There is one enterprise that has received very little attention for its commercial acumen because most people don't view it as a business. But it is. Let's take a few moments to look at this business, review its business model and determine the secret to its success.
First, let's look at some of the numbers associated with this business. Last year, it had gross revenue of $882 million and a net profit of $63 million. This marks the 19th year in a row that the enterprise has increased its gross revenue and made a profit. In fact, over those 19 years, it has a total profit of $649.6 million on gross revenue of $10 billion.
Like many franchise businesses in our country, it has achieved this level of success by working out a sound business model and then replicating that model all across the country. It began in 1916 with a single site in Brooklyn, N.Y. Since that time, it expanded to 938 facilities in 1995, but has seen some contraction since that time. Its latest annual report states that it operates 860 sites.
One of the interesting parts of the business model for this endeavor is that it has been able to tap into government money and avoid paying even one penny of taxes on its profits. Of the $10 billion the company has taken in over the last 19 years, 39 percent ($3.9 billion) has come from the American taxpayer. It was after it began receiving these funds in 1964 that its explosive growth began – more than doubling its locations over the next nine years.
As with any successful business enterprise, it makes every effort to create a demand for its products and services, identify the demographics of the consumers who are most likely to be its customers, and then implement a strategy to bring those customers through its doors. On a national level, 27 percent of its customers are under the age of 20 and 70 percent are under the age of 25. Thus, it is young people that make up the overwhelming majority of its customer base.
This demographic is not unexpected since the company's main products and services are geared to enabling individuals to engage in uninhibited sexual activity. So dedicated is this enterprise to the avocation of sex that when it published its 25-year plan in 2000, its No. 1 goal was to make sure that sex is celebrated.
Thus, the business model for this enterprise is: Get young people involved in sex; sell them products to use while having sex to avoid pregnancies and diseases; and provide back-up products and procedures to undo the results of the failures of its primary products – and to do all of this while convincing the American public and the government that it is providing a needed public-health service so that it can be granted tax-exempt status and never have to pay a penny in taxes on its profits.
So, what is the enterprise we have been describing? It is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, with its 120 affiliates and its 860 facilities across the United States.
Let's take a more in-depth look at this very successful organization. Planned Parenthood's business model elements include:
The implementation of this three-step business model has been very lucrative for Planned Parenthood. Just last week, it released its 2004-2005 annual report, and the numbers tell the story of a thriving enterprise – the numbers cited at the beginning of this column. This is indeed that $882 million business that made $63 million in profits last year; it has made a total profit of $649.6 million since 1987; Planned Parenthood has received $3.9 billion (yes, that's billion, with a "b") in taxpayer money since 1987 and spends $45 million a year on its sex education programs in an effort to sexualize our children.
In addition, Planned Parenthood kills over 250,000 pre-born babies in its own facilities each year. Its abortion business provides 31 percent of its clinic income. It does 180 abortions for every one adoption referral and kills 14 babies for every one it helps with prenatal care. Planned Parenthood committed 19.8 percent of abortions in the United States in 2004 and over 3.8 million babies have died in Planned Parenthood facilities since abortion was decriminalized in the United States.
Although the business has been successful for Planned Parenthood, it has been a disaster for the American people. It has contributed to the spread of debilitating and sometimes fatal diseases, has killed more people than currently live in many or our states, and has done it all under the guise of a "charitable" organization with 39 percent of its funding coming from our hard-earned wages.
This is one big business that we should close down, and we can start by stopping the flow of our tax dollars into its coffers.
It is sickening that we are funding the Culture of Death.
Pro-Life Ping.
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An American business 'success' story (Planned Parenthood)
Nearly 40% of Planned Parenthood's money comes from the taxpayers.
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If Hitler could've hired Planned Parenthood to run their mass murder camps, they probably could've convinced the Jews to voluntarily pay for their cremation./sarc
Let's see...smoking is legal. Maybe I can start "Planned Pulmonary" and get 180 people hooked on cigarettes for every one I help quit. Or "Planned Sobriety" and create some alcoholics with tax dollars!
If Hitler could've hired Planned Parenthood to run their mass murder camps, they probably could've convinced the Jews to voluntarily pay for their cremation./sarc
WooHoo! Jim. Great.
They did, with their gold and valuables that were taken away... not to mention land and monies.
I said, "voluntarily".
Not just funding it, but funding a PROFIT for it!!!
Ooops...it's WND. Has anyone checked the figures to make sure they add up and aren't made up?
Thanks for posting this. One aspect is not shown but important. There are two Planned Parenthood organizations. One that provides health services, separate from the one providing abortions. The reason is to get around laws against abortion or federal funds paying for abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood health clinics apply for and get federal funding while the abortion clinics are separately operated and receive no federal funding.
$63mm profit for killing 250m babies. That's a net 'profit' of $252 per baby. $3,582 gross. If there ever was a definition of 'gross profit' needed, here it is.
Breaks my heart.
We must stop this grotesque "business" now.
In her 1938 autobiography, Margaret Sanger discusses her keynote address at a Silver Lake Ku Klux Klan Rally.
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