Thank you h_anna_h, I know you are getting downvoted but HN just isn't the same as it used to be. People get easily offended now and will downvote you if you do

Thank you h_anna_h, I know you are getting downvoted but HN just isn't the same as it used to be. People get easily offended now and will downvote you if you dont agree with them. It's pathetic and sad. Thanks for bringing up that thread. I have a lot of reservations about giving money away to such "non-profit" organizations before but I get an idea of whats going on behind the scenes now. I certainly will no longer be donating to the EFF and Wiki organizations knowing non-profit organizations possibly funding parties and luxurious corporate life styles. I want the money I give them to stretch as much as possible. I'm not against parties either but when you spend millions citing conferences and travel (even some large for-profits dont spend this type of money) citing you are non-profit to mismanage my money then I simply won't stand for it. My trust in local non-profit organizations were already pretty shaky but I somehow trusted these large organizations because I thought they would be more frugal and we would have more transparency. I was clearly wrong. You simply have no idea how the money is being spent and its very difficult to dictate how they should better allocate resources either. Apparently most people think that frugality would be the default in these organizations but once you give them a credit card, they won't think twice about over spending on stuff that has marginal benefits like luxury company cars, chartered planes, expensive dinners etc. I will still donate to causes I believe in but I am going to now ask for receipts and will enforce strict frugality. Parties should be limited to the office with a dozen Dominos pizzas and everybody should bring their own soft drinks & cups from now on.