[IP] Charities are for Suckers
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From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 13, 2005 8:16:06 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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