They are not really Co-Ops. They are non profits running under the name of Co-Op.

A real Co-Op wants to bring you a product at a cheaper price by volume buying. These groups can’t volume buy because no one knows exactly what the end service will need to be. IE Health care insurance.
The requirements are changing weekly and more than likely their target demographic is more than likely the lower wage earners and they will get government subsidized insurance anyways.
Can’t get cheaper than free.

They don’t mind though since they all earned a good wage trying to start the Co-Op and they will just find another government subsidy to start the next one.

Its the new liberal industry. The next best thing to a real government job.

This is too bad. I am a fan of co-ops, such as credit unions, REI (sporting goods), and C&H Sugar. Co-ops are a perfect example of free markets finding ways to give customers better goods and services at lower prices.

But these guys are giving co-ops a bad name.

I know people in this game, its just a way of life and how they pay their bills, it IS an industry unto itself. For the time and aggravation that they go through I have suggested that it would indeed be easier to go “straight” and just do business. I think at the higher level, when you are able to create that tap root into government through your connections they know it never dries up. Unlike business where you are required to think and perform and then pay your bills.

The leftists will bust their ass to get a non profit working in order to pull a salary from that instead of just busting their ass to get a small business going.
It must be some mental block in their thinking. They must think one is somehow socially better than the other.
Profit is what pays the taxes that provide the social programs they want to keep running.All they are doing is spending all their effort in not paying taxes expecting those greedy republicans to foot the entire bill. And in this economy that is really getting hard.

I am not surprised that after the government cash runs out they don’t have a plan to keep the organization running.

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