My Nonprofit Reviews

I always hesitate to open POGO's newsletters because they are invariably packed with detailed accounts of deep, systemic corruption in our government, the institution that is supposed to keep Americans protected from enemies domestic, natural, and foreign. In particular, I resist opening The Bunker, because the amounts involved in the military's budgetary extravaganza dwarf those of any other branch of government; the military has the best, patented reasons to keep scrutiny away ("national security"); and this spending insanity has full popular and bipartisan support, making reform extremely unlikely. When I do open The Bunker, I skim quickly and then close it before reaching the end, having absorbed as much as my system will tolerate before collapsing.