http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2010/12/24/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-give-to-a-charity/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2010/12/24/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-give-to-a-charity/#comment-933576 Interested Reader Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:00:09 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=6421#comment-933576 You know unless you hand out money to people personally you can’t know if the money is going to go to someone you deem as worthy or undesirable.

]]> http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2010/12/24/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-give-to-a-charity/#comment-933516 deRuiter Sat, 25 Dec 2010 10:24:27 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=6421#comment-933516 Giving LOCALLY is an excellent idea. Giving to a small group which doesn’t waste money is important too. United Way pays the president and other officers of the company (and it IS a major COMPANY, a BIG BUSINESS whose first purpose is to create high paying jobs for company officers and other workers) extremely high salaries. One year the president of United Way got, if I remember correctly, $850,000. in salary and benefits. This is charitable giving which is wasted. Giving to the local, non profit animal shelter, which is currently bursting at the seams with animals abandonded due to the economic crisis, is a lot better use of your money. Also, be aware that you are giving a generous amount to “charity” each year by your income taxes and all other taxes you pay. You’ve given over a million dollars last year to teach Somalie men to wash their penises, frankly money in my opinion, which could have been better spent in America. You “give” lots of other money which is disseminated on your behalf to countries all over the world. So give LOCALLY to a charity which has low administrative costs and helps Americans this year, so many are struggling, losing homes, living in their cars, having to double and triple up, living in the streets. I’m talking about the working poor, not the professional welfare class which is comfortably protected by welfare, ADC for all the illegitimate children they crank out, food stamps, free medical, section 8 housing. It’s the non welfare poor who are struggling in America. Help them.

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