@GamTrak 175317 wrote:
Looks like the Red Cross has been forced to take out a Line of Credit to help the folks in all of the states that have been hit by the hurricans from the past three years and now IKE is due to hit in a couple days.
The Red Cross is yet again asking the hard-working, financially strapped American folks for help when the average hard working family is in need of help themselves.
I’m sure that most of us will rise to the challenge to do what we can while Bush and McCain continue to spend 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq and ignore our country.
The GOP look down on charity, but thank God for those “Community Leaders” who care about the country and the people because we certainly need them to assist in this effort.
Look at that national debt that the next generation has to bear!
I guess when you are rich enough to take care of your future generations then you can ignore that outragous number above.
The Red Cross took another loan back 2004 with the big Tsunami if I remember correctly.
The GOP just hates handouts of any kind as do most Republicans.
But actually some guy wrote a book and was shocked to find that Republicans actually gave more money to charities than Democrats.
When I heard this I was somewhat shocked as well as I always though Democrats were more generous. This does not clearly fit the personality traits of Republicans. I concluded that Republicans just wanted the charitable tax deduction although there is a big reglious following.
However, anyone can fork over a few bucks but a truly generous person will give you their time. I would imagine that if they measured non-monetarial charitable contributions Democrats give more.