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The red cross recieved around 900 million in donations for aide to the victims of 9/11. however, they have decided that only about 20\% of the money will go towards the victims. the rest will be used for programs the red cross wants to fund. It's classical liberal money wasting. If there is a problem, just throw money at it. Doesn't matter who's money it is (taxpayers, donations etc). Does anyone else see how wrong this is?
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PostIcon Posted on: Nov. 08 2001,00:57 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
i do
and i absolutely agree with CK on this one
the money were donated for a perticular purpose, but never got to the people they were really intended for
it's a shame
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PostIcon Posted on: Nov. 08 2001,01:08 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
not in the least. i didn't donate.

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PostIcon Posted on: Nov. 08 2001,01:19 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
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Originally posted by CatKnight:
The red cross recieved around 900 million in donations for aide to the victims of 9/11. however, they have decided that only about 20\% of the money will go towards the victims. the rest will be used for programs the red cross wants to fund. It's classical liberal money wasting. If there is a problem, just throw money at it. Doesn't matter who's money it is (taxpayers, donations etc). Does anyone else see how wrong this is?

Eh...could they really have used the whole 逤 mil though? It's likely the medical expenses just didn't go anywhere near using up the money...and as for helping the victims financially, that isn't really the Red Cross's purpose...

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PostIcon Posted on: Nov. 08 2001,02:20 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
No, but it is kinda fucked up that the Red Cross never really said anything about not all procedes going to WTC funds. I guess when people are throwing gobs of money at you, you keep quiet.
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I dunno, they're gonna end up shooting the whole charity world in the foot in the long run if you ask me, people are gonne be afraid to donate money because of this.
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This is to aid who and in what way, and how much money is really required? I'm pretty sure the reason they will be using it to fund other things is because they have way too much excess money on their hands.

Besides, 720 million dollars spent on things that are for a good cause, which people would probably not have donated because they wouldn't think it's patriotic, or their duty, or they would not have been as emotionally touched by the 9/11 incident.

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Eh...could they really have used the whole 逤 mil though? It's likely the medical expenses just didn't go anywhere near using up the money...and as for helping the victims financially, that isn't really the Red Cross's purpose...

actually, people donated to the red cross under the pretense that it would go towards relieving victims and medical supplies, etc, not for new research projects and completely unrelated topics. if all of the money was given to the victims, which it was supposed to, then every family who lost a father or mother would recieve somewhere around โ,000, enough to compensate the loss of a full time employee for a year.

and solid-the issue isn't what good they could be doing with the money, which is in dispute by itself. the point is that the red cross basically said "everyone in america, give us money, for the sake of the 9/11 victims", then went back and said "hey, we get all this money, we don't have to give ALL of it to the victims do we? i mean, we could give ourselves pay raises instead!"
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PostIcon Posted on: Nov. 08 2001,04:32 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
I really see both sides, so I'm torn on this one. But I think the greater good will be achieved by them redistributing the to other programs.

The sad thing is that I'm left wondering how corrupt the Red Cross upper echelon is. They are full time employees right? Hmmmm I just hope there are enough checks and balances there.

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why do you think the greater good will be done by stealing money away from victims for programs that they wouldn't have even thought of implementing if it wasn't for the sudden surge of money?

it's as if a mother were to give her young son a ฤ to go get ฤ worth of groceries, but then the kid spends ภ on impulse purchases!

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