An Unholy Mess

Too Big to Fail

Oxfam, which depends upon UK Government largesse, regularly hectors and lectures the world (especially the West) on its moral obligations to humanity.  It regularly takes up Left-wing causes into its megaphone and trumpets them forth, doing its best to make other human beings feel guilty (and so give Oxfam more money).  

Now it appears the organization is an unholy mess.  This, from the Daily Telegraph:

Oxfam refused to ban staff from using prostitutes saying it would "infringe their civil liberties", a training manual has revealed.   The guidance, still available on the charity's website, says that they "strongly discourage" their workers from paying for sex but a total ban would be "impractical".

The same manual reveals that Oxfam has "dismissed staff for exploiting or abusing beneficiaries or members of the local community in virtually every recent humanitarian response".

The document has emerged as the charity faces a growing scandal over its handling of use of prostitutes by its staff in Haiti, where sex work is illegal and some of whom were alleged to be underage.  The charity has since faced revelations of sex for aid and abuse of teenagers in British charity shops. 

Oxfam receives 32 million pounds of taxpayers' money annually.

Good For Business

Oxfam Needs Calamities To Survive

Mmmm.  Inequality is apparently decreasing across the globe.  But we are assailed relentlessly by do-gooders telling us that inequality is destroying mankind.  Here is an example from the socialist ideologues at Oxfam:

The richest 1 per cent of Kiwis have bagged 28 per cent — $42 billion — of the wealth created in a single year.  Meanwhile, the poorest 1.4 million people (30 per cent of the population), got barely 1 per cent — $1.5b — of all the wealth created in 2017. . . .

The report will discuss how the global economy enables a wealthy elite to keep accumulating vast wealth by avoiding taxes, driving down workers' wages and prices paid to producers, and investing less in their businesses.  The research also showed a mere 10 per cent of New Zealanders own more than half the nation's wealth and the inequality gap had widened significantly in the past year.  The wealthy elite have continued to accumulate their assets while hundreds of millions of people struggle to survive on poverty pay, Oxfam NZ executive director Rachael Le Mesurier said.  "This gap is extreme. It's not reducing, so that's a real concern. Inequality is really bad for democracy.  [NZ Herald]

The latest UN 2016 Human Development Report has been analyzed by Human Progress.  It turns out that inequality is declining around the globe.