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Do You Give To Charities ?

#1

jmurray01

jmurray01

I donate to charities whenever money permits, which unfortunately, has been very little recently, but I'm still giving when I can.

In an ideal world, charities would not exist, because everybody would be fine, and nothing would need sorting, but this is the real world, and awful things happen, that need to be helped.

This thread is just a reminder really, to anybody who can afford to give, but hasn't thought about it.


#2

twall

twall

I pay taxes - and my government does my donating for me......all over the world.......:rolleyes:

When I have some extra cash after doing that, I buy stuff like food and gas and insurance - you know - those 'extras'.


#3

JDgreen

JDgreen

twall said:
I pay taxes - and my government does my donating for me......all over the world.......:rolleyes:

When I have some extra cash after doing that, I buy stuff like food and gas and insurance - you know - those 'extras'.
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Not trying to rant here, but it ticks me off BIG TIME our government hands out my tax money to third and fourth world nations when we have millions of homeless, hungry, and needy here in the USA. Take care of OUR CITIZENS first.


#4

Carscw

Carscw

This might piss you off. But I agree with you old man keep our money here


#5

JDgreen

JDgreen

Carscw said:
This might piss you off. But I agree with you old man keep our money here
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Well, only two more years and I can begin collecting "Charity" which will be my SS, assuming anything is left to pay my benefit.


#6

Carscw

Carscw

It's not charity it's money you gave them and now it's time for them to give some back. It's not free money like welfare There are families here that still dont have homes after they lost every thing they had in April but some dot head gets a million dollars to buy a hotel My grand dad always said bury your money in a coffe can


#7

JDgreen

JDgreen

Did not really "give" them my SS money they extorted it....


#8

twall

twall

JDgreen said:
Well, only two more years and I can begin collecting "Charity" which will be my SS, assuming anything is left to pay my benefit.
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Well, after they 'give' you your check, you can 'give' some back to pay 'your portion' of Medicare. My mom and dad are going through this right now.

It'd be my opinion, that when you're broke and in debt, you can't afford to give any money to your neighbors - this'd go for our govt., too. We are BROKE. We need to stop this giving away money to every other country - and borrowing from China to do it.

My two cents......


#9

Pete.S

Pete.S

My charitable giving consists of maintaining the grass at our local Humane Society Shelter. I'm a dog lover that could easily slip into hoarding dogs unless I get my fix every week playing with and walking different dogs from my own three. When I get home my girls sniff me all over wanting to know Who Is She? It's all fun.


#10

wjjones

wjjones

We give un-needed stuff to our local goodwill store it helps us, and creates jobs for people with disabilities... :thumbsup:


#11

JDgreen

JDgreen

wjjones said:
We give un-needed stuff to our local goodwill store it helps us, and creates jobs for people with disabilities... :thumbsup:
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Good for you, we also donate stuff to Goodwill, and then I buy stuff there too. My latest purchase was a nearly new Rowenta professional ironing board thats sells for $100 and tax locally...I paid $4.99 and tax.


#12

JDgreen

JDgreen

Pete.S said:
My charitable giving consists of maintaining the grass at our local Humane Society Shelter. I'm a dog lover that could easily slip into hoarding dogs unless I get my fix every week playing with and walking different dogs from my own three. When I get home my girls sniff me all over wanting to know Who Is She? It's all fun.
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Good for you, our niece works for the local Humane Society, I always donate to their operations when they have a fundraiser. When I see their ads with pictures of animals waiting for adoption I always want to run down and take them all....:frown: but we already have adopted four cats that were unwanted and cannot adopt more.


#13

wjjones

wjjones

JDgreen said:
Good for you, we also donate stuff to Goodwill, and then I buy stuff there too. My latest purchase was a nearly new Rowenta professional ironing board thats sells for $100 and tax locally...I paid $4.99 and tax.
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Yep i got a 12" color tv there for $7.50 and it works perfect.. I use it in the shoppe when i am tinkering.. I ran the satelite cable out there from the house.. I also bought a vhs player to use dubbing our videos from vhs to dvd for $6 and it is still working good..


#14

wjjones

wjjones

JDgreen said:
Good for you, our niece works for the local Humane Society, I always donate to their operations when they have a fundraiser. When I see their ads with pictures of animals waiting for adoption I always want to run down and take them all....:frown: but we already have adopted four cats that were unwanted and cannot adopt more.
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Same here we have 2 dogs, and 2 cats we saved from the shelter.. I try to take them either some $$ or buy them a few large bags of cat, and dog food when i can..


#15

Bison

Bison

As a farmer/rancher i have Donated plenty in my life by producing cheap beef and grain for the masses while working a full time off farm job to be able to sustain my own family.
As such i keep every dollar i make to myself,charities can go pound sand for all i care when their CEO's are making over 6 figure incomes.:frown:


#16

JDgreen

JDgreen

Concur with Bison on his statement about too many CEO's of charities raking in big bucks, to solict donations when staff and management make obscene salaries is a farce of the first magnitude.

Local news here had an opinion authored by someone who claimed the past CEO of the Humane Society of the United States is collecting $260,000 a year in pension pay for the rest of his life. Pretty disgusting.


#17

wjjones

wjjones

Bison said:
As a farmer/rancher i have Donated plenty in my life by producing cheap beef and grain for the masses while working a full time off farm job to be able to sustain my own family.
As such i keep every dollar i make to myself,charities can go pound sand for all i care when their CEO's are making over 6 figure incomes.:frown:
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Good point Bison everything has to be a big corporation these days.


#18

rer

rer

twall said:
I pay taxes - and my government does my donating for me......all over the world.......:rolleyes:

When I have some extra cash after doing that, I buy stuff like food and gas and insurance - you know - those 'extras'.
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I will donate when they donate to me.:2cents:


#19

gtbobcat

gtbobcat

I have donated but since doing a little research...as you all know the people at the top are rewarded very well indeed...but what really rots my socks is the fact up to 75% of donations can be used for "administration" purposes before any red flags are raised !!!!! so how much is really going to the cause? it`s nothing more than a business and probly always was....I still give but not like before and I always ask what % is for administration no answer, no give..I`d rather give unused or old items to Sally Ann or to Diabetes for resale than cash....jmho


#20

wjjones

wjjones

gtbobcat said:
I have donated but since doing a little research...as you all know the people at the top are rewarded very well indeed...but what really rots my socks is the fact up to 75% of donations can be used for "administration" purposes before any red flags are raised !!!!! so how much is really going to the cause? it`s nothing more than a business and probly always was....I still give but not like before and I always ask what % is for administration no answer, no give..I`d rather give unused or old items to Sally Ann or to Diabetes for resale than cash....jmho
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Well said the critters, and others that need the donations get left out...


#21

twall

twall

Well -

After all of the administrative costs and orginizational costs and advertising with the Ad Council costs, there isn't much left to give to the cause that got people donating to begin with.....:frown:


#22

wjjones

wjjones

twall said:
Well -

After all of the administrative costs and orginizational costs and advertising with the Ad Council costs, there isn't much left to give to the cause that got people donating to begin with.....:frown:
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Yep good point.. Some like to believe they are helping but its all for nothing most of the time.


#23

Bison

Bison

Charities might've had noble beginnings at the start but most reverted to providing a real good living only for the leeches running it.

Kinda like our governments and "Civil Servants"...The latter is an oxymoron cause they serve nobody but themselves.:rolleyes:

IMO, The only charity worth consideration is Salvation army


#24

wjjones

wjjones

Bison said:
Charities might've had noble beginnings at the start but most reverted to providing a real good living only for the leeches running it.

Kinda like our governments and "Civil Servants"...The latter is an oxymoron cause they serve nobody but themselves.:rolleyes:

IMO, The only charity worth consideration is Salvation army
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Yep i agree..They always get greedy, and or stupid.


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