Made a donation to a homeless shelter. The three men made a visit to the shelter and made a $6,000.00 donation. This contribution meant an additional $40.00 dollars per person to the men staying in the shelter. My question is, with a cash cow in the upwards of $350,000,000.00, what in the hell were they thinking. I guess no one gives 10% anymore. What are your thoughts.
2006-09-08 09:27:46 · 6 answers · asked by fire_side_2003 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
LOL maybe I should of asked you all what if you are democrats. Judging by your answers you most certainly are. I did'nt quote the bible. I just made a blanket statement. Anyway, I am glad this made for such a heated POLITCAL FINGER POINTING debate, way to go dems, turn charity into something bad.
2006-09-09 02:09:56 · update #1
Last time I looked, a homeless shelter was not a church; this becomes a 'give what you feel is right' situation, not a 10% equation.
2006-09-08 09:34:29 · answer #1 · answered by Lonnie P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tell me please. Who cares? We spend $500 billion per year on defense and we have 44 million Americans with no basic health Insurance, half are women and children. I care about this because I am a Democrat and we care about women and children. The Republicans only care about the tax cuts for the wealthy. Tom Cruise gets $20 million per picture, he needs a tax cut.
BTW, I always laugh when people quote the Bible who do not know the Bible. Our moral obligation to the poor is referenced over 44 times in the Bible, I think it's clear. We do have a moral obligation and the care for them is a Godly act. According to my copy of the Bible. Republicans may have a different copy they use as needed to rationalize there thinking.
2006-09-08 12:02:44 · answer #2 · answered by jl_jack09 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By what means have you established that this was their only charitable contribution? The fact that you mentioned the story means that they have drawn attention to the shelter by their visit. Lastly, the $350M is fiction. It was probably $225M BEFORE taxes. You throw around numbers like a journalist -- it contradiction to fact.
2006-09-08 09:42:32 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeh, the shelter should give the money back to the lottery winners
2006-09-08 10:17:03 · answer #4 · answered by Zen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That was forty dollars more apiece than they had before. I am not one to refer to the bible, but you need to read that passage about the poor always being with us.
2006-09-08 14:49:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if it supports public education,, so be it
2006-09-08 10:51:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋