[Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson

[lfalen]

I would agree with you on this. I too get tired of making a contribution and geting another ding every two weeks after that.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Art Deco" deco at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:18:23 -0800
To: "Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson

> 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.
> 
> w.
>   ----- 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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