Posted on 01/25/2013 2:50:07 PM PST by Edmunds mom
Can you name this donor? He co-founded Silicon Valley’s first great corporation. He funded and befriended every Republican President from Nixon to George H.W. Bush. His decisive actions helped save two conservative think tanks, the Hoover Institution in the 1950s and the American Enterprise Institute in the 1980s. In 1992 he declared, “the Democratic Party has been the party of socialism since President Roosevelt’s term,” and it “is indentured to union labor.” Your last clue: The foundation named for him—America’s seventh largest—is a pillar of the liberal philanthropic establishment.
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Louis Auchincloss wrote a story about this once. The minute the guy died, the board of his foundation took hold of the money and did it their way.
Sometimes it’s the children, but its nearly always the guys who choose to spend their lives working for foundations. Almost all of them are libs.
Dave Packard was a great man with a great idea.
Because of his business model thousands of people were brought along in his success.
He was however, always left leaning outside of business.
My husband had a wonderful career at HP (then to Agilent, to Philips Lighting-called LumiLeds), which as we know was (HP) destroyed by Carly.
Yes. And I'm fascinated by the fact that virtually all non-profits [possible exception: NRA] are populated by liberals. There is something about giving away great sums of money that attracts them like flies.
I'd like to see a study [privately-funded, of course] that would show me where conservative kids go to work.
Your right, the culture of layoffs began with Carly and have continued with regularity. Profit sharing was abandoned shortly thereafter and the almost regular stock splits ended about that time too.
I was laid off a second time April 1 of 2010 (April fools day). It was a wonderful career and I miss the wonderful times and great people that I knew.
Walter Annenberg, another conservative businessman and member of the Nixon Administration, gave billions away through his foundation including $49 million to Chicago schools through the Annenberg challenge. Radical Bill Ayers wrote the proposal for the grant and Barack Obama was selected chairman of the board of directors administering the money. This position aided Obama’s climb to the presidency.
Essentially the wealth of a conservative businessman facilitated our current leftist president achieving office.
I don’t remember who said it, or if I will get the quote right, but if an organization is not explicitly conservative, it will become liberal.
I think the expression applies: “Enlightenment did not strike twice in the same place.”
However, in all fairness, liberals are masters in infiltrating, subverting and corrupting organizations, be they interest organizations, charities, foundations, and what all else.
Invariably they want three things: to expand the mission of the organization to embrace liberal causes; to mostly eliminate the original mission, or even reverse it; and finally, to personally profit by voting themselves funds.
For example, a hypothetical scholarship fund for abused poor children. When liberals take control of the board managing its funds, they would first expand the rationale of who is responsible for the abuse to things like “global warming abuses children.”
So then they would give money not to abused children themselves, the intent of the fund, but to liberal political organizations, because “electing Democrats is the best thing you can do for abused children”.
Then they would all vote to quintuple the pay of board members “because they work so hard for abused children.”
By then, the organization’s original purpose is dead, and any money going to it is wasted. As it withers, it is still used up by expending its credibility and good name.
It doesn’t surprise me at all. Nearly all of them go that way. Without moral conservatism, there will be no fiscal conservatism.
Thank for posting an excellent summary of how most charitable organization are run/ruined by liberals.
My wife and I no longer volunteer or serve as board members for any so called non profit because of what we have seen, heard and read once inside and behind the closed doors.
Needless to say, they don’t get much money nor time from us.
“Liberals are masters in infiltrating, subverting and corrupting organizations, be they interest organizations, charities, foundations, and what all else.
Invariably they want three things: to expand the mission of the organization to embrace liberal causes; to mostly eliminate the original mission, or even reverse it; and finally, to personally profit by voting themselves funds.
For example, a hypothetical scholarship fund for abused poor children. When liberals take control of the board managing its funds, they would first expand the rationale of who is responsible for the abuse to things like “global warming abuses children.”
So then they would give money not to abused children themselves, the intent of the fund, but to liberal political organizations, because “electing Democrats is the best thing you can do for abused children”.
Then they would all vote to quintuple the pay of board members “because they work so hard for abused children.”
By then, the organization’s original purpose is dead, and any money going to it is wasted. As it withers, it is still used up by expending its credibility and good name.”
Packard was an idiot blinded by misplaced trust in the leftist progeny he failed to bring up properly. (throwing money at liberal adult children does not make up for not being there when they were kids. It simply facilitates evil.) Packard saw how Stanford was taken over by the left. Packard lived long enough to see what happened to the Ford Foundation and Annenberg Trust. He had no excuse, only the explanations of senility and misplaced trust. The author of this piece may wish to sugar coat reality. I do not.
Case in point is the Annenberg foundation and what William Ayers and his bud state Senator Obama did to Chicago education was well documented by Stanley Kurtz.
When Kurtz appeared on a local well respected talk show WGN’s Milt Rosenberg they tried to block the call in show while protesting outside the studio as well. This was a harbinger of today.
geez, Carly destroyed HP - I’m trying to think of the names of the two men that lasted less than 3 years as CEO after her, they cut RD spending by 30% or planned to sell off all hardware and go into the software business ala SAP...help how did Carly do that? Oh and the guy who replaced her - he was using a hooker to close deals - please. Maybe that is why the board fired him...hookers for sales people at HP. Carly may not have been everyone’s ideal, but she did last more than a few months on the job.
Often, it isn’t just the liberal children, siblings and grandkids, waiting like vultures to turn the organization, profit and non profit into a liberal hell hole.
Often, it is the old guys/gals turning liberal in their 70’s/80’s. So liberal, some of their children can’t believe what has happened to Dad/Mom/Grampa/Gramma.
My wife and I have broken off spending time or talking to these “new” liberals after decades of them pretending to be conservative.
Why do all of these rich organizations obsess over population control? If not explicity pro-abortion, they are REALLY concerned with too many brown people being born.
I am convinced that many Foundations are populated by Liberals because they can award themselves HUGE salaries and they are giving away OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.
David Packard is no conservative. In the 1980’s, he was a big supporter of Rep. Ed Zschau (R-Calif.), a flaming liberal who was stridently anti-defense—he even opposed building anti-satellite weapons. By the way, Zschau rhymes—appropriately—with Mao.
Carly, changed the business model.
It’s that simple, the others continued what she started.
She took a no debit, slow growth company and made it like everyone else.
There is a third way, you know. Give it to good, deserving charities (they exist) in your will.
There's no law that says you have to give your assets to your children.
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