Trust but verify.

I bought no GS cookies this year after I read about the militant lesbian background of its national leadership, incongruent with the cute little girls selling them in front of my supermarket.

Pretty sick to pull a hoax on girl scouts. The girls and their parents are not crazed, militant lesbians. They´re kids trying to do something worthwhile and help others. These girls are helping a homeless shelter.

#2: in addition to the "evolved" philosophy of the organization, I also have a problem with the whole purpose of GS cookies. They claim that making girls labor to sell cookies is an effort to teach them something about business, rather than to enrich the organization itself.

Well, here´s the lesson:

The product is of little value. The amount of product being sold in each unit has become less and less over the years as the prices have gone up and up. There are similar, competing options on the store shelves, yet people continue to buy GS cookies. Why? Because they are helping a "cause".

So, basically, it´s not business they´re teaching these girls, it´s how to con someone using the emotional pull of a "cause".

And the organization is raking it in while the troops get a mere fraction of the proceeds for their hard work.

Scam.

The net weight of GS cookies is pretty light these days. I could probably eat that order by myself, given a couple of weeks.

I agree an am saddened by the direction the Scouts have taken. When I sol them they were .50 a box. Now they´re $4 for about 12 cookies.

In the case of this story, as a former cookie chaiman...I would haave collected from the company BEFORE I submitted the order. I´ve had to cover enough bad checks from regular customers over the years.

$24K is way out of my league....and the National Girl Scout Council has no sense of humor.

Now how will I meet the minimum daily requirement of hydrogenated vegetable oil?

I stopped buying GS cookies when I found out they hooked up with Planned Parenthood and was donating money to them. They also use a sex education pamphlet made by PP, I´m sure y´all can guess what´s in it.

Cool!

Dykes with daughters don´t need the dollars anyway.

Oops! Did I say that out loud?

Even if the cookie selling is some form of a racket,I´d rather young girls be somewhere learning decent values as far from the left´s sexualizing young girls at earlier and earlier ages.

I know the YWCA was co-opted by militant lesbians a long time ago but for now,I´ll give the GS the benefit of the doubt.

The left is always trying to infiltrate some form of traditional America and bring it down,so it wouldn´t surprise me if they had some effort going on to infiltrate the GS,just like the effort to get the BS to accept open gays and scoutmasters.These same people can´t wait to have an openly gay NFL player to step forward.

The left thinks it´s funny to send a SWAT team to someone´s house as a prank,this just shows how low a human being can get,pranking the GS.

Just to clarify where I´m coming from, I am a former Brownie leader. And not that very far former, either, only about five years. So, I do know that the organization is not what it used to be. I was in GS for many, many years in my childhood and early teens.

I´m not just getting my impressions from blog posts.

I am 100 per cent with you as a GS and also a former Leader in Seattle area. I stopped having my Troop push cookies because almost all the proceeds from the sales were going to Totem Council the very unit that was working to have "God" removed from the pledge. I am not a churchgoer and I never pushed anything on the Troop but why should we support lawyers and wackos destroying our country?
I do donate to Troops sometimes under the condition that it stay right there in the Troop and go no further. I feel bad these young people are being used and their parents have know idea.

Color me confused. In the recent event of our world being turned inside out, upside down and backassbackwards I´ve lost track of the good organizations and the scam ones. They were once so simple to distinguish. Would someone please designate one secret handshake and use it?

sounds like the girls scouts played a hoax on the public. great way to get a lot of people standing in line to buy some dreadful cookies.

Some den mother should get the salesperson of the year award for thinking up this scam!

I think the Portland police should investigate the den mothers.

What has this world come to if something like this can happen in Portlandia , of all places?