An idea.........?

Question

What if everyone in your town/city gave $1 to charity every month.....think of the possibilities! There are about 30,000 people in my town!Star me if you like this idea!

I do not know where it should go, I suppose that would be up to the people. I would like to think that we could help Katrina victims, starving people, homeless kids, abused women, the possibilities are endless.......

Answer 1

Well there are over 4 million people here in metro-Atlanta, so we'd raise a lot of money if we did.

Answer 2

Really?
Did you know that the CEO's of many charities make millions of dollars a year?
Charities are businesses / corporations with their product being emotion and guilt.
They may be 'non-profit' but their employees make large salaries.
Many charities give less than 20% of donations to the cause they supposedly care about.

Answer 3

good idea but I'm sure as with all the other charities there is money coming in but the people who control it always miss-use it. People who run the charities get too greedy.

Answer 4

Are you aware that the majority of 'charities' actually have paid staff? That a large part of the money goes to those on their payroll? Even "Red Cross" is that way. Their top personel earned something like $100,000 each, yearly (a 1980 figure)!

In 1986 reporter Andrea Rock charged in Money magazine that 1 unit of blood costs:
blood banks $57.50 to collect ,
hospitals $88.00 to buy it from the blo
Love of Neighbor Has Grown Cold - Love of Neighbor--A Reality - When Aod banks,
patients from $375 to $600 to receive its transfusion.

In September 1989 reporter Gilbert M. Gaul of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote several newspaper articles on the U.S. blood-banking system. After a years investigation, he reported that some such banks beg people to donate blood, then sell as much as 50% of it to other blood centers, at considerable profit. He estimated blood banks trade about a million pints [half a million liters] of blood each & every year this way, in a very shady $50,000,000-a-year market, which functions similar to a stock exchange.

A key difference, though: This blood exchange is NOT monitored by government. No one can measure the exact extent of it, OR regulate its prices. Most blood donors are ignorant of it. “People are being fooled,” one retired blood banker told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Nobody is telling them that their blood is going to us. They'd be furious if they knew.” “Blood bankers have for years fooled the American public”, said a Red Cross official.

Just in the USA, blood banks collect some 13.5 million pints [6.5 million L] of blood yearly, selling over 30 million units of blood products for about a Thousand Million Dollars! Blood banks prefer the phrase “excesses over expenses" to "profit". From 1980 to 87, Red Cross alone made $300 million in “excesses over expenses”!

Blood banks insist that they are nonprofit, claiming that unlike the stoch exchange, their money doesn't go to stockholders. But if Red Cross did have shareholders, it would be ranked among the most profitable corporations in the USA!
Not surprisingly, blood-bank officials have very handsome salaries. Of 62 blood banks surveyed by The Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 percent of their officials made over $100,000 yearly, some making over twice that much!

Blood bankers actually claim that they don't “sell” blood they collect, only charging processing fees. However, one blood banker has said: “It drives me crazy when the Red Cross says it doesn’t sell blood. That’s like a market saying they’re charging you only for the carton, not the milk.”

That is typical of many other 'charities', & is the reason many refuse to donate to them. So ... ... ...

My family only donates to TRUE charities, where the $$$ is spent on the Actual Needs of victims & their helpers (food, clothing, shelter, transport, rebuilding, & Spiritual support) as needed, & peopled with sincere volunteers --all of them, all the way to the top, none pf which get any salary other than True Satisfaction. I'm only aware of one such trusted organization that has a World Wide Emergency Relief Fund:
http://www.jw-media.org/people/contribute.htm

What you are suggesting sounds similar to a tax, & you know how people feel about that. Perhaps an insurance. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that it would have to be made compulsory to keep it 'maintained'.

Sad commentary on humanity, isn't it ...
http://www.watchtower.org/library/kn35/article_01.htm

Answer 5

Yes as long as it's not left up to the government to disperse it.

Answer 6

That is never going to happen but is a nice idea.

Answer 7

i dont trust charities to use the money wisely ...

Answer 8

great idea. but who would the money go to, and who would control it?

Answer 9

something a jew will think of...