[Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson

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Like Tom, my wife and I have redirected a lot of our charitable contributions to local charities for which we can see how much goes to those in need or toward social actions which we support.

Not only do we think that a bigger bang for the buck is had, we are not deluged by these local charities with emails, expensive mailings, and phone calls weekly to give more.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: Saundra Lund 
  Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:49 AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson


  Thank you, Saundra.

  Sidebar to Roger:  Not many employers (make that "none that I know of")
  like to hire homeless for one simple reason.  They have NO address.  As
  such, just how do you recommend they (homeless) fill out a job
  application; especially that part of the application where it asks for the
  applicant's address, Roger?

  There are very VERY few (maybe one or two) national charities to which I
  contribute.

  I live by one simple adage . . .

  If you want to help out locally, contribute locally.

  For instance:  How much of a 100-dollar donation to the Humane Society of
  the United States reaches the animal shelters here in Moscow . . . versus
  a 100-dollar donation to the Humane Society of the Palouse?  It doesn't
  cost you a cent more to contribute locally and (believe me) it is
  appreciated.

  Thanks again, Saundra.

  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho



  On Thu, February 10, 2011 11:23 am, Saundra Lund wrote:
  > And, of course, attitudes like that are precisely why the intelligent
  > among us refuse to "trust" that local charity, as advocated by the
  > Unthinking Right, tea baggers, and some so-called Christians is
  > sufficient, and we demand instead a safety net not dependent on the
  > generosity of people like you for the least amongst us.
  >
  > Because more likely than not, that "homeless" guy is a war veteran with
  > invisible injuries.  Or has a heart or other physical condition that makes
  > it impossible for him to do physical labor without the medical care he
  > needs but doesn't have access to  because he manages to make $3000 a year
  > in Idaho, which makes him ineligible for Medicaid.  Or he suffers from
  > clinical depression or some other mental illness worsened by morons who
  > refuse to hire him for jobs he can do because he's "mental" and who think
  > that he should pull himself up by his bootstraps which is impossible to do
  > when barefoot.  Or he's 75 years old & homeless because his pension plan
  > was raided by greedy people -- like those on the Unthinking Right -- who
  > care only about feathering their own nests rather than having character,
  > which is epidemic in this country now.  Or a thousand other scenarios
  > which the Unthinking Right never thinks about yet finds appropriate to
  > make the butts of moronic jokes like this.
  >
  > Funny, huh, how what you thought was a joke speaks a lot more about those
  > who relish retelling it -- that would be you, Roger -- than it does about
  > political parties or disadvantaged individuals because fortunately for
  > this nation, not ALL Republicans belong to the Unthinking Right.
  >
  > Thanks, though, for yet another example I can use when presented with
  > "Trust us . . . we'll take care of the needy in our community, so it's
  > safe to gut government social services to get rid of all that waste."

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