Red Cross sucks! period. they havent changed they ways they have done relief
for over 40 years.
Need to remind people how they handled the 9/11 money that was donated ?
Not to mention when an an F5 tornado ripped through the town where i live
back in mid 60's i think. When the Red Cross came in they setup shop and
charged people for the items for the towns people needed for relief. you
name they charged people for it. Maybe they have changed but i doubt.
Another thing is where was all the concerts when the same region got slammed
by the 4-5 hurricanes with a 2 month period. maybe not the lives lost like
the latest hurricane but still displaced as many lives.
>From: "Rick Barnes" <rascal@scrtc.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
>Subject: RE: DML: The Red Cross
>Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:50:41 -0500
>
>
>Well, another thing to check out is
>www.give.org
>
>which rates those charities on what percentage is spent on admin vs. the
>actual programs. Salvation Army meets the CBBB Standards for Charitable
>Solicitations.
>
>
>From the website....about the American Red Cross.....
>
>Chief Executive Officer: Marsha Johnson Evans , President and Chief
>Executive Officer
>Compensation*: $468,599
>
>Half a million?
>
>Rascal
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
>[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Terrible Tom
>Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:11 PM
>To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
>Subject: Re: DML: The Red Cross
>
>
>Joseph A. Orsini wrote:
> > This is all straying way off topic and I am only going to post once on
>this
> > subject, and it is not intended to flame anyone so please keep tat in
>mind.
> > You might be best not just blindly donating to the Red Cross. Some time
> > after 9-11 it came out that some of the top honchos at the RC were
>crooked
> > thieving bastards. The organization itself is a good idea and I support
>it
> > but there were issues with the directors that have supposedly been
>solved,
> > but I am still not sure. I do know that because of the accusations that
> > came to light at least one if not more of the directors of the Red Cross
> > were either removed or forced to resign. There was one example I recall
>off
> > hand about the mud slides in Cali a while back where there were local
> > contributions that totaled something north of 5 million and the actual
>money
> > that went to help the mudslide victims was in the neighborhood of 300k.
> > This was before the shake up at the top so I have no idea if things have
> > improved or not. Just an FYI so you can maybe be better aware of how
>your
> > contributions might be used. Again not trying to flame anyone or slam
>what
> > over the years has been a good charity organization.
> >
> > -Joe
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>I trust the Salvation Army more than the Red Cross, just my own
> >>experience.
> >>
> >>Rascal
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>Hmm I guess I missed those stories - I havn't donated to anyone yet - I
>just got home from work - I also worry about who gets the money and the
>possibility for corruption - - you guys think the Salvation Army is a
>better choice?
>
>
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