Oh is it Tuesday Nice Time already? Then it is time to have a story about someone NOT being AWFUL! (With a little "guidance" from the Justice Department.) And that is why you are about to read about a 13-year-old boy who is being admitted to the elite Milton Hershey School (yes, funded by the candy company's trust) for disadvantaged kids even though he has AIDS, and they had denied him entry based just on that fact, out of deference to the health and safety of their other students, but now somebody (the Justice Department) explained the law to them, and they are letting the boy in and they are sorry they didn't at first, and man, Big Government just ruins stuff for everyone (who wants to discriminate against a 13-year-old boy with AIDS), doesn't it?
A few years ago I looked at the financial reports for the Hershey Trust, and its not a pretty picture. The Trust receives millions of dollars in dividends from Hershey stock, and then fully supports the students at the school.
The problem is there just aren't that many students at the school. Again, it was a few years ago, but from memory the Trust has several hundred thousands of income for each student. It could be sending them to Harvard or Stanford - with plenty of money left over for thousands more students.
The Board of Directors is "self perpetuating" - meaning the existing directors elect new ones. This is a formula for an old boy network.
Some day the State of Pennsylvania and the IRS are really going to tear into this, and the results are going to be ugly, indeed.
Right-wing GOPtards seem to infiltrating various trusts and boards around the country (Komen Foundation, I'm looking at you), and wreaking their peculiar brand of wingnut havoc. State university governing boards, in particular, are vulnerable to idiot trustees appointed by teabagging governors, as U-VA found out recently. (Conservatard billionaire donors, trying to push their politics, are also a big part of the problem.)
well now i have to go listen to team america again for sure.
A few years ago I looked at the financial reports for the Hershey Trust, and its not a pretty picture. The Trust receives millions of dollars in dividends from Hershey stock, and then fully supports the students at the school.
The problem is there just aren't that many students at the school. Again, it was a few years ago, but from memory the Trust has several hundred thousands of income for each student. It could be sending them to Harvard or Stanford - with plenty of money left over for thousands more students.
The Board of Directors is "self perpetuating" - meaning the existing directors elect new ones. This is a formula for an old boy network.
Some day the State of Pennsylvania and the IRS are really going to tear into this, and the results are going to be ugly, indeed.
I'm sure they're preparing the lead lined coffin as we speak.
And ride in the back of the school bus.
Did anybody think to ask how they knew this?
Right-wing GOPtards seem to infiltrating various trusts and boards around the country (Komen Foundation, I'm looking at you), and wreaking their peculiar brand of wingnut havoc. State university governing boards, in particular, are vulnerable to idiot trustees appointed by teabagging governors, as U-VA found out recently. (Conservatard billionaire donors, trying to push their politics, are also a big part of the problem.)