Rules of Thumb
A Rule of Thumb is a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation. It is an easily learned and easily applied procedure or idiom for approximately calculating or recalling some value, or for making some determination.
An organization's source of funds determine its real goals.
A valid source of funds is a person or company - nothing else.
An organization can only be considered a company if it produces something i.e., a good or service. Being a front, shell or holding group is not a company.
If an organization will not divulge all its funding sources then the messages, precepts and goals of the group should be considered tainted and untrustworthy. In other words, don't believe a thing they tell you.
Organizations funded by banks or financial services companies should be consider suspect and their message not believed.
If an organization's spokesperson is discussing a topic and uses the word "freedom" frequently, then curbing freedom in some form is the organization's goal.
Congress will only be able to do its job when all campaigns are publicly funded.
An organization's source of funds determine its real goals.
A valid source of funds is a person or company - nothing else.
An organization can only be considered a company if it produces something i.e., a good or service. Being a front, shell or holding group is not a company.
If an organization will not divulge all its funding sources then the messages, precepts and goals of the group should be considered tainted and untrustworthy. In other words, don't believe a thing they tell you.
Organizations funded by banks or financial services companies should be consider suspect and their message not believed.
If an organization's spokesperson is discussing a topic and uses the word "freedom" frequently, then curbing freedom in some form is the organization's goal.
Congress will only be able to do its job when all campaigns are publicly funded.
