The federal government contributes quite a lot to pay for employees to work at non-profits through means-tested federal programs. Does anyone ever check to see if the non-profits actually have qualified people if providing mental health or medical services or are quack enterprises with tax shelters and so forth?
Non-profits can compete with private enterprise is sales of merchandise, and can provide housing for relatives of non-profit CEOs who could in theory lease back a building they are buying to the non-profit. In the Obama era of continuing very low or free loans to wealthy banks and bailouts of large failed corporations maybe it doesn’t matter much if the poorer range of the spectrum of American enterprisers that does something for the poor is something that those with good social security, union and investment retirement benefits can afford. Still, nothing replaces good jobs for those that run into the poverty ceiling.
For example, a guy is a retired union electrician who did very well in his hometown branching out into contracting decides to become an amateur psychiatrist and open a transitional shelter for those recovering from psychosis. He is an experienced fund-raiser and knows how to get government grants and free employees at public expense through programs like experience works. He can open a thrift-resale store and get donations, bid on discounted discarded items from big box stores as a non-profit, and buy land to start a 100 bed facility. All that gets done without any sort of fellow with a degree in psychology. Is that a thing the public wants to get involved in through government?
The fellow's theory, having read 50 books, is that all one need do is listen to psychotics and schizophrenics and they will get better. Having a hundred people recovering from psychosis without any sort of supervision from people with degrees seems a little dangerous for a number of reasons.
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