Total Income from Tax Exempt/NonProfit Organizations: $145,962,844.00
Total Assets of Tax Exempt/NonProfit Organizations: $181,615,626.00
Poverty rate
Kiryas Joel: 68 percent
Food stamp usage
Kiryas Joel: 41 percent
Tax Exempt/NonProfit Organizations in Kiryas Joel / Parasite Village
http://www.taxexemptworld.com/search.as ... eria=10977
I went to Kiryas Joel Friday to see if the magic was still there. Last time they started to build a medical center here, it turned into a swimming pool. Federal money for badly needed health services showed up as a diving board in a girls school. Other public money meant for the health center went for drainage work at a private subdivision.
Then, in April 1990, the partially built health center burned down on purpose.
Presto, like magic, the feds coughed up $3 million to build another one.
There is 44 mil in aid being distributed from the economic stimulus package to schools in OC. But look at who gets what:
Here are the stats for KJSD. There are approximately 300 children enrolled in the district:
http://new-york.schooltree.org/district ... 10755.html
KJSD is receiving 11 million in stimulus money thanks to Chuck Schumer.
That amounts to 36,666.67 dollar per child.
Here are the stats for the rest of OC:
http://new-york.schooltree.org/Orange-C ... hools.html
There are approximately 62,000 children attending the rest of OC's public schools.
They receive the remainding 33 million of the 44 million in school aid given to OC.
This amounts to 532.25 per child.
Chuck Schumer and your other NY representatives feel your child is worth 532.25 while a child from KJ is woth 36,666.67. Remember that when it becomes time to vote.
Give our government officials credit. When they're bought off, they stay bought. In return for a bloc vote and money, they continue to give KJ officials special favors. Our state Legislature keeps passing laws to create a public school district for a religious community. Each time, the courts find the laws in flagrant violation of the United States Constitution.
So elected officials gathered Friday, from New York City and Albany and Orange, appearing out of nowhere for the opening of the new health center. Plenty of food, more than 300 well-connected invitees. Everything was all set.
Then rose the untidy sound of free speech. Across the street from the medical center, a small band of dissident Kiryas Joel residents gathered with protest signs. They wanted to let the politicians know not everyone in Kiryas Joel approved of the public school district. One of them began talking over a loudspeaker.
He was immediately drowned out by the voice of authority booming from the medical center. "Momzer!" thundered the hidden Wizard of Oz voice over the powerful sound system. "Momzer!" This is Yiddish for "bastard."
The demonstrators tried to answer. Suddenly, they were drowned out by music louder than Megadeth, pumped from a sound system on top of the medical center. Drown 'em out with music.
It worked. The protesters were muffled. That would have been the end of it if not for the State Police. They ordered the music lowered, however briefly, so the demonstrators could be heard.
The State Police were operating under the authority of the United States Constitution, and it was awesome.
Wow. This is some powerful document, I was reminded. With all the politicians there in the pocket of KJ authorities, with all the power on the side of the silencers, the Constitution trumped them all.
The protesters weren't the only uninvited guests. No village official had invited the daily newspaper. But because this was both an important community event and one paid for with taxpayer money, we were there as witness and watchdog.
That, too, was how the Constitution intended it. In fact, our reporter covering the event had helped uncover the scandal behind the first KJ medical center. No government could stop him. Nor could any government stop another of our reporters this week from discovering that not only was Stewart Airport without a radar screen, but the feds had lied about what they knew.
This isn't written to glorify the newspaper I work for, as our flaws may be many. It is not written to hail the protesters or even damn the village officials.
It is written to praise the Constitution of these United States. I had gone to Kiryas Joel on Friday to witness the dark magic of political power. I ended up bathed in light.
For even though the authorities would again pound the protesters into silence, even though they would pelt the demonstrators with taunts of "We can't hear you,'' the dissidents were able to whisper in my ear. "Tell the people there are many voices here,'' said Yisrael Weiss.
It's my privilege to deliver the message.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.d ... NEWS271999
