Saturday, October 27, 2007

Politics As Usual

Have you read a lot of negative feedbacks about Mr. Dion of the Liberal Party Leader from Canada? That he is more fluent speaking French than English while the PM Harper speaks fluent English but not fluent in French. But did the critics ever asked that the majority of the Canadians doesn't care anyways. Because they are mostly Europeans, Asians and Americans!

The former PM Jean Chretien had the same problem as the oppressed not the oppressor. Critics are there to criticized everything that they can write or talk about be of politics, sports, arts, and the media. It is something that can bring the people to TALK and with this kind of communication whether its bad or good....yeah bad or good is a PUBLICITY for those whose names are mentioned. Do these kind of rumor-mongering makes money? The hell yes, it does makes money.

How much money it generates? That, I don't have a clue. I am not their accountant.

How the Conservatives and the Liberals make money? Probably from membership fee, fundraising and other businesses that each members are affiliated to. That's from a general viewpoint. You can ask some of your MP's how they're doing it.

Take into account a smaller group. Like having a private non- profit organization in your community. Take for example a group of Filipino-Canadian Club or Italian-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian or Japanese-Canadian Club. Once you organize a certain club, to be a member in that exclusive organization, a membership fee is required. The fee becomes the club's main fund for safekeeping or part of that fund becomes a capital for the activities that they want to work on with. The activities sometimes in the form of party or occasional party that the officers organized. The party has to sell tickets and those tickets sale derived revenue. These revenues are then used for other activities: sports, arts and entertainment, or whatever the officers and members voted upon in the group meeting. The excess of the money they made for a certain period, if there is.. becomes "grant" to their charity of choice.

That's how simple it is in a small organized community group. The accounting is very simple especially when you can trust the officers whom you voted in such organization. The members always asked where the money goes. What happened to their contributions? That the officers should have a notarized or bank statements or just simply a written balance statement of the account. The president, secretary and the auditor (cashier) are the 3 important characters in a club. If something mess up then the blame belongs to them. Uhm, is that so!? Not really because there are too many barrier and hindrances that make the communication fails in the first place. Each one wants to lead and each one wants to be better than the other.

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