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Leena Pihanurmi compared sports organizations to social welfare organizations and considered them to belong to a privileged sector of organizations. She wrote that the Ministry of Education and Culture granted a total of 1.28 million euros in subsidies to the Finnish Volleyball Association for the year 2026. According to Pihanurmi, the association's CEO, Karri Virtanen, engaged in efficient Porsche cars, among other things. Pihanurmi urged familiarity with the report from the National Audit Office for the year 2025. According to her, the audit office estimated that approximately 1.2 billion euros in state grants for sports were granted between 2015 and 2024, and identified significant shortcomings in the funding. Pihanurmi described the findings of the report as indicating that the grant policy had maintained old organizational structures and that sufficiently precise goals had not been defined for the grants. She also wrote that the grant criteria did not encourage effective use of funds or impact, and that the effectiveness of general grants had not been assessed for ten years. According to her, the wealth of organizations was inadequately considered in the assessment of grant needs, even though some sports federations were very financially solid. Pihanurmi reported that the report also criticized the fact that the financial risks related to the corporate structures of the organizations were not sufficiently considered, and that the inadequate guidance of general grants was compensated for by special grants. Additionally, Pihanurmi wrote that the distribution agreement from 2020 still affected the distribution of grants among organizational groups. According to her, municipalities had been granted overlapping funding for the same purposes as state funding for sports, and the Ministry of Education and Culture did not monitor whether the state funding for municipalities was used for activities defined by law. #liikunta #urheilu #valtionavustukset (translated)

Mika Merano wrote that it was not about class but corruption. He claimed that Members of Parliament, other significant and former politicians, and their close circles received rewards on the boards of associations funded by tax money or directed funds to their own projects. According to Merano, organizational subsidies and, for example, the funds used for Garden Helsinki were taken from elsewhere and were also reflected in the support received by poor families living on subsidies. He accused politicians of pursuing their own and their close circles' interests and expressed his anger towards such activities. #korruptio #politiikka #veronmaksajat (translated)

Sture Fjäder wrote that organizations wanted members of parliament in their boards to get more state or taxpayer money. According to him, politicians were therefore biased, and the activities should stop. #järjestötuet https://t.co/2YQkTfpENS #politiikka #verot #kansalaisaktivismi (translated)

Leena Pihanurmi criticized a multi-page interview published in Seura magazine, in which Demokraatti journalist Susanna Luikku interviewed Vertti Kiukas from Soste ry. According to Pihanurmi, Kiukas expected the leftist government to continue supporting 700 social and health organizations with hundreds of millions of tax euros. Pihanurmi wrote that the number of organization workers and volunteers varied in different Soste sources. He stated that Kiukas announced the number as 1.5 million, whereas earlier it had been reported as 550,000 and 204,271. Pihanurmi characterized the content of the interview as threats and baseless complaints. He claimed it aimed to secure the financing of the bloated sector and its jobs, which he believed were funded by Veikkaus. According to Pihanurmi, the article did not mention that the sector had grown over decades by misleading the poor and those with gambling problems. https://t.co/Inulcjd4lX #politiikka #järjestö #sote (translated)

The author suggested the title that organizations claimed Israel continued to kill children in Gaza. He questioned how the situation could be called a ceasefire when, according to him, the killings continued day after day. He stated that the perpetrator should always be mentioned and considered it good to speak about the killings, as he believed that was what it was about. https://t.co/2vqGJJevAh https://t.co/cmacCXvdTT #IsraelinKonflikti #Gazassa #Ihmisoikeudet #IL #PS (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for often choosing female journalists to incite moral panic, according to him. He interpreted Yle's analysis as showing that support for the National Coalition Party among women had dropped to 12 percent and that the Finns Party had surpassed this party. However, according to Mäkäräinen, women were not punishing the National Coalition Party for its policies but for its austerity measures, and men were supporting the state. Mäkäräinen believed that the decline in women's support was due to the impact of budget cuts on sectors predominantly employing women, such as social services, organizations, and public services. In his view, this did not make the cuts unjust, but rather highlighted their effects. He mentioned the Social Democratic Party, the Left Alliance, and the Centre Party as the most popular parties among women and claimed that the left proposed tax increases amounting to nine billion euros. According to Mäkäräinen, the costs of these increases would fall on men who work overtime, start businesses, and pay progressive taxes. Mäkäräinen assessed that the issue for the National Coalition Party was its attempt to soften difficult decisions, while the Finns Party spoke about the same issues more directly. He argued that men were underrepresented in the care sector and overrepresented in dangerous jobs, entrepreneurship, and at the high end of the tax revenue spectrum. In his opinion, the National Coalition Party should maintain its stance even if it lost some female support, as this could help it win over voters who support the sustainability of the state. https://t.co/DfwLyPN03s #Politiikka #NaistenOikeudet #Taloustieto (translated)

The Finns Party asked how much could be cut from public funding for organizations, as taxpayers' money had been allocated quite generously to various organizations for a long time. The party wrote that not everything needed to be financed with tax funds. #ps #perussuomalaiset #STEA #järjestöt #järjestöt #veronmaksajat #rahoitus (translated)

Sture Fjäder questioned the necessity of the Breastfeeding Support Association and wrote that maternity clinics provided information about breastfeeding children. According to him, the association should secure its funding independently instead of relying on taxpayers' money, and he demanded the cessation of STEA support. #järjestötuet https://t.co/Nqw7uDE38s #imetystuki #rintaruokinta #yhdistykset (translated)

For a change, another organizational rant article in HS. Both the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare mentioned by the author and the Niilo Mäki Foundation, which finances the Niilo Mäki Institute, are both organizations bloated with gambling loss funds. In both, there is plenty to cut besides guiding volunteer activities. For instance, from research, project and material manufacturing, lobbying, and administration. Mervi Viteli-Hietanen, who is concerned about the Reading Granny and Grandpa activities, has otherwise worked as a journalist and has written at least for the Pirkanmaa Left's Vasen kaista online magazine. https://t.co/SGzlbE6OyK #järjestöt #näkökulma #yhteiskunta (translated)

It is truly wonderful that the author has received significant help from organizations that operate with government funding. I have also received help myself. However, personal experience does not in any way prove that organizations and foundations funded by taxpayers' money could not have waste, inefficiency, overlaps, and outright misuse of tax funds, as evidenced by the staggering salaries of some organizational leaders. When people talk about organizational waste, they are referring to the things mentioned above. They do not mean grassroots assistance work, peer support services, and the work of experts with experience and other volunteers. https://t.co/ocRnkc83F5 #järjestöt #valtionavustus #veronmaksajat (translated)

Munsterhjelm väittää nuorten sinnikkyyden kasvavan järjestötoiminnassa. Voi olla, mutta on härskiä käyttää nuoria rahanlypsyvälineenä omalle organisaatiolleen, joka toimii lähinnä tulevien ammattipoliitikkojen broilerikasvattamona. Nuorisoala ry:n pj on keskustalainen poliitikko Aleksi Sandroos. Hallitus koostuu järjestörälssiläisistä. 2/6 #nuoriso #järjestötoiminta #politiikka

Tänään HS antaa näkyvyyttä järjestörälssin yhdelle merkittävälle rälssipomolle, Suomen nuorisoala ry:n (ent. Allianssi ry) tj:lle. Hänen mielestään - tietenkin - on veronmaksajien tehtävä rahoittaa kansalaisjärjestöjä ja niiden harjoittamaa lobbausta. 1/6 https://t.co/J0TRssbeRP #nuoriso #järjestöt #lobbauksenetiketti

”Orpon hallitus valitsi Viertolan selvittämään mm. järjestö- ja vapaaehtoistoimintaa koskevaa sääntelyä ja sen vaikutuksia järjestöihin.” Pellemaailma. Kokoomus on aika laittaa luiskaan. Koko pulju. Jokainen kokoomusedustaja, joka hyväksyy tämän perseilyn, on osa ongelmaa. #Suomi #politiikka #järjestöt

Näyttää siltä, että julkinen tuki läpipolitisoituneelle Helsinki pride-järjestölle on tulossa tiensä päähän tai ainakin pienenemässä merkittävästi. Hyvä. Aidot kansalaisjärjestöt tulevat aina toimeen ilman julkista tukea, eikä varsinkaan aatteellisille järjestöille pidä veronmaksajien rahaa antaa. Tämän sanottuani korjaan erityisesti vasemmistossa elävää harhaluuloa: Se, ettei halua antaa julkista rahaa Pride-järjestölle ei tarkoita sitä, että vastustaisi seksuaalivähemmistöjen oikeuksia. Esimerkiksi minä uskon vahvasti siihen, että jokaisella, myös vähemmistöillä, täytyy olla samat oikeudet lain edessä sekä vapaus elää turvallista oman näköistään elämää, kunhan eivät niin tekemällä estä muiden vastaavia oikeuksia. Mutta en halua, että kansalaiset pakotetaan tukemaan rahallisesti inhokkiaatteitaan. Tai, että aatteellisia tunnuksia tuodaan valtuustosaleihin, ministeriöihin tai muualle julkishallintoon, oli kyse sitten pride-lipuista, uskonnollisista tunnuksista tai puoluepoliittisista tunnuksista. Tällainen tolkun linja ei polje tai vaaranna kenenkään oikeuksia, päin vastoin. Hallinnon aatteellinen neutraalius varmistaa, etteivät myöskään vähemmistöihin aidon vihamielisesti suhtautuvat ideologiat, kuten islamismi, kommunismi tai natsismi, pääse vahingossakaan ottamaan kuristusotetta päätöksentekokoneistostamme. Siksi myös sateenkaariyhteisön on syytä olla tyytyväinen, että järjestötuet pienenevät ja niitä kohdistetaan järkevämmin. Näillä saatesanoilla kannustan kaikkia suomalaisia tukemaan itselleen tärkeiksi kokemiaan kansalaisjärjestöjä. #Terestroika https://t.co/NqFVwD0ekj #HelsinkiPride #Kansalaisjärjestöt #Oikeudet

Puheenjohtamani toimikunta esitti ministerille jo 2024, että kaikki nuorisoalan järjestötuet perataan läpi. Oikeasuhtaisuustarkastelussa tuet määritettäisiin uudelleen ilman saavutettuja etuja ja sementoituja tukitasoja. Kuka tätä vastustaa ja miksi? https://t.co/Wg4nSStajl #nuoriso #järjestöt #tuki

Eikös kansalaisjärjestöt pitääkin toimia talkootyövoimalla ja vapaaehtoisilla.Ei ole yhteiskunnan asia rahottaa järjestöjä kansalaisten maksamilla veroilla. Minä lopettaisin kaikki järjestöjen yleistuet.Palveluja voi yhteiskunta ostaa jos ne ovat kilpailukykyisiä. #järjestötuet https://t.co/RfAWPL7KPc #kansalaisjärjestöt #vapaaehtoistyö #yhteiskunta

Ensin tämä demari,kansanedustaja,maahanmuuttaja kertoo meille kantasuomalaisille mitä suomalaisuus on,ja nyt hän syyttää meitä oikeistolaisia siitä että viihamme järjestöjä. Noloa,tiedämme mitä suomalaisuus on ja emme vihaa järjestöjä. #suomalaisuus #järjestötuet https://t.co/UbLbdIxYEZ #suomalaisuus #politiikka #maahanmuutto