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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
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After getting funding for his Academy, Benjamin Franklin worked on getting money for another project. He came up with a clever way of collecting funding for his new cause of building a hospital-- this was the matching grant. He had convinced Pennsylvania politicians that the Assembly should match every private donation with a pubic one. Some politicians thought Franklin was too smart for his own good with this approach. Maybe his concept of what looks like compassionate conservatism to us in the money coming from the public purse as well as from private donations has a
murky challenge to more established authority in it? The
stench in some minds of equalitarianism as opposed to the then existing rigid class system of England. One thing, Franklin did not mind the
grime on his hands if it resulted in getting an approach that worked no matter how much it looked like
comedy to the powers that were in his time.
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