« Guns in the Workplace | Main | Celebrating the New Year »
December 30, 2004
World Relief Day
Captain Ed has a post about fake charity pages being set up to take advantage of people's good will. He urges people to only give to well known and established charity organizations, and then proceeds to post the following:
CQ reader Jeff Carlson has an interesting suggestion -- one that could make a verifiable charity very happy:How about a "World Relief Day" where Americans can pledge/donate 1 days take home pay to relief of the disaster victims? A lot of employers might match it as well ...I suggest January 12th ...
How about it, CQ readers? Does January 12th sound like a good day for our own World Relief Day, where we pledge our take-home pay for that day to tsunami relief? Jeff suggests Red Cross as a beneficiary (the Amazon link), but I think CQ readers might be more comfortable with World Vision. Post your comments and I'll make the decision based on the feedback received. I'll also have a blogroll posted on January 12th of the blogs that link back to it.
Let's see what good we can do here.
I have an issue with those who sit back and say that America's not giving enough, especially when they list the cash donations from the government as the only thing we're giving. Non-cash donations (time from our troops) counts for something, in my opinion, but I can understand why some people wouldn't really think so.
But, the money the government gives? That comes from the exact same source as the more than 4 million dollars that Amazon.com has raised for the American Red Cross. Private donations aren't somehow different from governmental ones (except for the fact that they're not in a morally gray area by the government's bizarro Robin Hood policies). I, for one, am helping Captain Ed out with this movement, and hope that others will, too.
As a complete aside, I'm sick of people turning everything into an opportunity to assume the worst of America. We say we're going to start out by giving $35 million, and we're being stingy and greedy. We go to war, and we're being imperialistic.
You want to argue that we're going about things the wrong way? Fine. Stop impugning our motives. At least give the benefit of the doubt that those of us who are proud to be Americans and support the government's actions
Posted by Robin S. at December 30, 2004 10:37 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.onestackmind.com/mt/mt-trackb.pl/156