Today I am ranting about different charities and heaven knows there is enough of them!Let me start with the biggie......Cancer. How many billions of dollars, over the years has been raised by this charity? Has it been successful in finding a cure yet? NO. In my opinion 85% of the money given in memorials and donations has gone to administration costs. I had a friend whose husband was dying of the disease and he had no insurance, so he turned for help from this charity to have a hospital bed at home so he could die there. They refused him....how's that for charity folks?what would the cost of renting a bed have been for them, but he was turned down and family members chipped in to see that he got it.I have to admit I have given a lot to this charity myself but only because it was stated by the family of the person(s) who died of this plague.I decided then that it would not happen again. I would rather give to those who are left behind.I could name so many more like heart and stroke, diabetes, muscular dystrophy, autism, and so on..... Several time I have received letters in the mail with a nickel attached asking for donations. If all those thousands of nickels were kept it would make a hefty donation I would imagine. I actually sent the nickel back, once saying "here is my donation...you need this nickel more than I do "
If and when someone comes up with a cure for any affliction, I would gladly see that they got my gratitude and the donation to go with it.
I still give to charity, but my emphasis now is on those who cannot help themselves. The pets people discard like garbage. There should be a law that says everyone who owns a pet of whatever nature and doesn't have it properly spayed, neutered or otherwise, be fined so heavily it would keep the animal charities going for years.To me it is like having another child in the house and should be treated with the same respect as any other member of the family.
I also donate to the charities that help to make a child's life a bit brighter. Those who are born handicapped or abused, living in orphanages. Like a weekend fishing trip or a visit to a concert or just so I can I put a smile on a child's face, somewhere.
All those food charities that send food and wheat and school supplies to Africa? Most of it rots on docks somewhere as a lot of the destinations have no roads or means of transporting it to them or else it lands in the hands of the black marketeers.Many people don't seem to realize where exactly their money goes.....but it definitely isn't where they thought. I applaud those who serve in these third world places trying to help but sooner or later they go back to their lives while the unfortunate ones just fall prey to the way it was before they arrived.No one can cure the ills of the world and I would say that since we all have to pay taxes that all charities not showing any progress in their efforts be taxed as well. If not taxed, then given a deadline to show results or their license to be a charity revoked.
In closing I would like to say I am not trying to attack cancer in particular, as I have had it myself, as did my mother, a daughter-in-law and my husband and not one penny did I see from their charity along the way.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Remembering
Today as I look at the state the world is in and the evolving of technology I think back to World War 2 and remember a family member who was wounded in France and ended up in a hospital in England with nothing but a hospital gown to his name. Along came the Red Cross and he asked if he could have a piece of paper, pencil envelope and a stamp to write his parents and tell them he was alive. They said he could have them but he would have to pay for them! This has been embedded in my brain since then and all the wonderful things said about the Red Cross now, turn me off completely.
Sure the world has changed and in this day and age his parents would have been notified immediately but what does it say about the Red Cross? To me it says they got where they are today on the backs of people like my family member and the thousands of others like him. Maybe they have changed.....I don't know but any donation to a charitable organization, by me will not go to them.
Time has shown that as generous as people are and think they are helping others will find food rotting on docks , administation costs of all the paper work rising, delivery delays and places no one can reach while others get paid to try and figure out what to do with all the money in their control. We never seem to hear about those we thought we helped or if it ever got to its "supposed" destination. Sure we get a tax write off and we feel good about thinking we helped but I question if it really did.
My heart bleeds for those unfortunate people in Japan and Libya who have to face these horrible but different circumstances. I applaud those who really are trying to help....not through donations to charities but who are there "boots on the ground" helping each other on a one to one basis.The rescue teams, police, firemen and so on , who risk their own lives to help their fellow country men/women. Even the cadaver dogs who tirelessly root through the rubble of former homes and businesses, hoping to find someone still alive. And for the Libyians who only want the right to speak their minds (like I am doing) and live like human beings. While typing this, which is "my speak" I am totally annoyed with the UN council. Why did they take so long to get this resolution passed. Can you just imagiine the number of innocent people who have perished because of their inability to come up with a decision? They knew what Gadafi was capable of and had been doing......Is our UN full of people who condone these actions? What does this tell us about future disasters like this....will they hum and haw til the world falls apart?I would say that its time they did some "house cleaning" there. They were, in my opinion put there to solve the worlds woes and discontent and not try to out-do each other, by wasting time doing it.
So I will sit here and hope that the Japanese can revive without further complications and the Libyians can march triumphant into Tripoli and we can come together as one world nation at peace with each other.
Sure the world has changed and in this day and age his parents would have been notified immediately but what does it say about the Red Cross? To me it says they got where they are today on the backs of people like my family member and the thousands of others like him. Maybe they have changed.....I don't know but any donation to a charitable organization, by me will not go to them.
Time has shown that as generous as people are and think they are helping others will find food rotting on docks , administation costs of all the paper work rising, delivery delays and places no one can reach while others get paid to try and figure out what to do with all the money in their control. We never seem to hear about those we thought we helped or if it ever got to its "supposed" destination. Sure we get a tax write off and we feel good about thinking we helped but I question if it really did.
My heart bleeds for those unfortunate people in Japan and Libya who have to face these horrible but different circumstances. I applaud those who really are trying to help....not through donations to charities but who are there "boots on the ground" helping each other on a one to one basis.The rescue teams, police, firemen and so on , who risk their own lives to help their fellow country men/women. Even the cadaver dogs who tirelessly root through the rubble of former homes and businesses, hoping to find someone still alive. And for the Libyians who only want the right to speak their minds (like I am doing) and live like human beings. While typing this, which is "my speak" I am totally annoyed with the UN council. Why did they take so long to get this resolution passed. Can you just imagiine the number of innocent people who have perished because of their inability to come up with a decision? They knew what Gadafi was capable of and had been doing......Is our UN full of people who condone these actions? What does this tell us about future disasters like this....will they hum and haw til the world falls apart?I would say that its time they did some "house cleaning" there. They were, in my opinion put there to solve the worlds woes and discontent and not try to out-do each other, by wasting time doing it.
So I will sit here and hope that the Japanese can revive without further complications and the Libyians can march triumphant into Tripoli and we can come together as one world nation at peace with each other.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Lost!
I started a blog some days ago, but decided to take a break and so I saved it but didn't post it......so now it has gone into cyberspace and I think its a sign it wasn't meant to be or else Im getting too old and confused in my networking!
It was mostly about my dysfunctional family , so Im not going to foist that on whoever might wander in!
Instead, as I try to see across the road through the snow let me just say "It's great to be a northerner" Those Floridians can have their hurricanes, fires and tornadoes......All I need is here (a snowblower in the garage). and a couple of men (in absencia) to use it! Have a sweet day!!
It was mostly about my dysfunctional family , so Im not going to foist that on whoever might wander in!
Instead, as I try to see across the road through the snow let me just say "It's great to be a northerner" Those Floridians can have their hurricanes, fires and tornadoes......All I need is here (a snowblower in the garage). and a couple of men (in absencia) to use it! Have a sweet day!!
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