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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: texasmom on April 29, 2008, 11:07:11 PM
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Anyone here have experience with them?
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Came out several years ago.. very little money actually goes to the folks in need. Was a big to do about it. Crooked folks running it. They may have cleaned up their act... but I won't ever give to them again.
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My big problem with them was a few years ago when they stopped giving funds to Boy Scouts of America, because they had a problem with gay scoutmasters
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Yeah, ever since I started wearing a uniform we always had an arm put on us to give to this crew every month. Most of all while in the military. I mean the kind of monthly contribution that was "voluntary" unless you volunteered not to, at which time the CO would hear about it. Later when I came on the job in a civilian capacity the same crap. I didn't mind, I figured a few bucks a month to a good cause was the Christian thing to do.
THEN there was a new expose about how the United Way might as well have been called the United Nations and that they had a program giving free legal service to the same felons and gangsters we were arresting and incarcerating. :lol Imagine that? And that they had this incredibly low rate of actual dollars going to the needy anyways. In short they are a flim-flam outfit using your/our dollars to pursue their leftist political agenda.
Well the Police and Military family's left them in droves, and, left them sucking air. Kinda like what we did to John Kerry. The United Way is no good and I dont care how many rich football players they get to Hawk for them. Tho I think even the rich athletes left them in droves.
Free legal services to gangsters. Whats that tell you about them? I was giving my $$ to provide free legal services to the same creeps who were shooting at me. :rofl Really you have to laugh.
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My big problem with them was a few years ago when they stopped giving funds to Boy Scouts of America, because they had a problem with gay scoutmasters
Me too. That is when I stopped giving to United Way. I still contribute, but my money goes directly to the people I wish to help.
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Ditto.
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While I was on active duty and they had the charity drives and what not, the only ones I donated to were hunting conservation groups. Ducks Unlimited was the one I always gave money to. Boy Scouts of America always got some money from me as well. The American Red Cross gets to tap a vein twice a year.
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Salvation Army is one of the better "bang for the buck" outfits. Pretty high percentage of what you give gets to people that actually have a need rather than the multi-millionaire running the show.
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Every year at work we have a big campaign and each department is pressured to have 100% participation although it's "voluntary". We spend 20 minutes watching a cheesey video and listening to the campaign manager. Some poor secretary gets stuck distributing and collecting these pledge cards, including the convenient monthly payroll deduction option. Even if we don't want to participate we're supposed to sign these cards and return them.
A few years ago our department chair "reminded" me that I hadn't turned my card back in. I told him it's in the recycling bin if he wants to go get it and then went into a 5-minute rant about why I don't want any of my money going to that organization and was not too happy that so many employees were spending time on this instead of doing the actual work the state taxpayers pay us to do.
They don't bother me about this anymore.
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I donate to salvation army and the NRA. Also a childrens group with a good record for getting the money to the kids.
lazs
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I think the Scouts got rid of the gay scoutmasters finally.
I don't shop at Target stores because they won't let the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts raise funds in front of their stores..... also they turned down Salvation Army Santas because they don't believe in Christmas.
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Every year at work we have a big campaign and each department is pressured to have 100% participation although it's "voluntary". We spend 20 minutes watching a cheesey video and listening to the campaign manager. Some poor secretary gets stuck distributing and collecting these pledge cards, including the convenient monthly payroll deduction option. Even if we don't want to participate we're supposed to sign these cards and return them.
A few years ago our department chair "reminded" me that I hadn't turned my card back in. I told him it's in the recycling bin if he wants to go get it and then went into a 5-minute rant about why I don't want any of my money going to that organization and was not too happy that so many employees were spending time on this instead of doing the actual work the state taxpayers pay us to do.
They don't bother me about this anymore.
Similar experience here Myelo. When I was 19, we were gathered together in one large room while the Bosses (all relatives of the Owner) gave us the Speech. They had us go to the front of the room, one by one, and sign the papers to deduct from our paycheck. I resented the HELL out of that tactic plus the fact that United Way had tried to coerce the Boy Scouts, much like the Gub'mint threatens states highway funding unless they roll over. When my name was called, I told them that I would not sign. They asked me why not. I told them that I'd rather donate directly to the charities I prefer instead of leaving it up to UW to dole the money out the way they see fit. They glared at me. The next day I was fired.
Fast forward a few years. I began working at the Bell Data Center in Birmingham, Alabama. As a programmer, I was in Management as opposed to Union. We were gathered into one large room, given the Speech, and told that as Management, it was mandatory to donate a minimum of 2% of our yearly income to the UW. I managed to put off having to sign it temporarily by asking for clarification of one point after the other, until such time as I finally quit that job. I did not fit in with those butt-kissing, knee-walking, lickspittle lackeys anyway (most of them had never had a single day of employment in their lives that was not some indoor, airconditioned clerical thing! Freaks!). Anyway, thats how I came to despise what many businesses do in the name of the United Way. And I still give to the Scouts and other charities that I want to.
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I find missionary work deplorable.Charity on the other hand,i give give directly to the cause or donate my time.