Donating to Charities

[Electricjars]

I generally only donate money to veteran charities or the Make A Wish Foundation. I send about 20% of my check to make a wish foundation. A lot of charities = 'scams', as in, your money does not = helping starving kids in Iraqistan. So you gotta be careful.

 

[Dissident]

I donate 2 bucks at the liquor store when they ask for the united way and that adds up on a daily basis... In all seriousness though lots of charities do misappropriate money and there are corrupt individuals in a lot of them. Example that big salvation army theft in Toronto was an inside job by the manager. And the Salvation Army is also a very Christian fundamentalist group who uses it's money to support churches and organizations that discriminate against gays and well anything not fundamentally Christian. Years ago I used to live in a Salvation Army homeless shelter and i'll let you know that those kind of places are EXTREMELY religiously biased and discriminate freely based on what the bible says no matter who's individual rights it tramples on. A great example of of proof of misappropriated money to charities is the Haitian benefit after the earthquake. Not the best example but Wyclef Jean's charity was shut after 16 mil went to various luxuries for the charity organizers http://www.imaginelifestyles.com/lu...n-grilled-misappropriated-haitian-relief-fund also in another light look at the way Canada gives to the First Nations here and how the Attawapiskat still live in 3rd world conditions after dumping billions at them while the one who handles the money, Theresa Spence, rides around in an escalade and lives in luxury (at least until they audit her and find that 16 million last year went missing and she throws a hissy fit and goes on a hunger strike to further tensions and cover her own ass.) My view of it overall is that donating money isn't the answer. If you can, donate your time and/or actual resources like food/shelter/lbasic living supplies/and literature. Money isn't usually the answer. Take it from someone who's on permanent disability. But hey, that charitable money from organizations and the government sure is nice to me and some people I've gotten to know when we want to drink on say a Tuesday night. See what I mean? How's the saying go... Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish....

 

[Electricjars]

Attawapiskat still live in 3rd world conditions after dumping billions at them while the one who handles the money, Theresa Spence, rides around in an escalade and lives in luxury (at least until they audit her and find that 16 million last year went missing and she throws a hissy fit and goes on a hunger strike to further tensions and cover her own ass.) My view of it overall is that donating money isn't the answer. If you can, donate your time and/or actual resources like food/shelter/lbasic living supplies/and literature. Money isn't usually the answer. Take it from someone who's on permanent disability. But hey, that charitable money from organizations and the government sure is nice to me and some people I've gotten to know when we want to drink on say a Tuesday night. See what I mean? How's the saying go... Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish....

I'm actually a Sawyer and Iron Worker currently cutting/drilling the material that'll be used to construct the new Attawapiskat school. That's what got me interested in looking at the whole hunger strike bullshit. If you look at pictures of her now she's actually gaining weight. Her husband is the chief or some shit and there's talk that he's sneaking her food and money on the hunger strike, and that most of the 'council'/equivilant or whatever is in on it. She's pretending to go on a hunger strike to get national, and even international attention support yet she's not even following through with it. Let's not even get started on the housing crisis.