Charities are for Suckers

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb () guppylake com>
Date: September 13, 2005 8:16:06 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Charities are for Suckers


Ted Rall pulls no punches:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20050913/cm_ucru/ 
charitiesareforsuckers


> NEW YORK--Hurricane Katrina has prompted Americans to donate more  
> than $700 million to charity, reports the Chronicle of  
> Philanthropy. So many suckers, so little foresight.
>
> Government has been shirking its basic responsibilities since the  
> '80s, when Ronald Reagan sold us his belief that the sick, poor and  
> unlucky should no longer count on "big government" to help them,  
> but should rather live and die at the whim of contributors to  
> private charities. The Katrina disaster, whose total damage  
> estimate has risen from $100 to $125 billion, marks the culmination  
> of Reagan's privatization of despair.

... Continued at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20050913/cm_ucru/ 
charitiesareforsuckers



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