Posted on 08/07/2016 2:47:54 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (KRQE) – There are some upset people in one New Mexico city after a fundraiser for the United Way was shut down because the well-known charity wanted to raffle off guns. “As Americans of freedom and liberty we have to remember we only have the rights that we stand up for,” said Kerry Maupin, local business owner. The United Way of Otero County received a letter from United Way World telling them to cease and desist with their fundraiser that would raffle off 108 firearms.
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A search of the web finds that there are many United Way wine tastings and casino nights which, likewise, should be “exclusions”.
United Way doesn’t rely on voluntary contributions. They use extortion to raise money.
They generally recruit a senior officer making big money at a large employer to lean on low wage employees to contribute via payroll deduction. You don’t HAVE to give, if you don’t mind making the big boss look bad. It’s not like there are any DIRECT consequences, you understand.
I stopped many years ago when I found out what they were spending money on.
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Me, too, decades ago.
(BTW...like funding Planned Non-Parenthood).
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My reason goes back to “Arimony, Arimony, paying your bill” (apologies to Led Zeppelin).
When I stopped, it was at the beginning of the HIV era, so to speak. While I didn’t want to see people like that suffer, it did tweak me the dedicated homes they spent funds on.
They were all-in, and it just seem inappropriate to focus on that group in a period when homosexual activity wasn’t main stream.
A lot of Christian people were donating funds, and a lot of funds were going to support groups they didn’t support.
That’s not to say Christians didn’t support some help for homosexuals with HIV, but that would be more a choice of the Christian group itself, rather than a somewhat shielded effort.
Your Planned non-Parenthood comments were spot on also.
United Way agencies also participate in the Combined Federal Campaign. Government and postal employees can opt to have a few $$$ deducted from their paychecks. About once a year CFC reps would come to the mail facilities to “pass the hat around”. If I were still working there I would make it clear that until attitudes at the United Way change over this they couldn’t pay me to contribute. I’m even refusing to take our 64 to any car shows put on for any local United Way charities until (as the liberals would say) MEANINGFUL changes occur.
Thirty years ago, I was dragooned at work, despite much mistrust, into giving to the United Way, on the promise that I could designate the recipient from their list. I gave $500 to a program for blind children. That organization sent a nice note thanking me for my $5 contribution. When I called they confirmed it was not a mistake; the United Way stole 99% of my donation for their million dollar salaries and limos. (Lots of good people work as volunteers for the U.W., without realizing they are being used. It’s the upper management and central bureaucracy that can burn in hell.)
another reason NOT to give to the united way. years ago, when they said that people who did not quadruple their giving were ‘cheap’, i stopped and nothing since has convinced me to resume
“If you are giving to the United Way, stop your donations and let them know why. “
You shouldn’t give the United Way a dime anyway! They are one of the worst “charities” to which you can give. Basically they are kinda like the Clinton Foundation, in that the people who run it take astronomical salaries and their administrative expenses are way, way out of line!
It was like that at JCPenney. If you didn’t sign up right away, the store manager leaned on you until you did.
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Kicked United Way to the gutter decades ago ..... I don’t need a third party to hand out my cash and keep part of it for “administrative costs” ...... I know who needs help in my neighborhood and give such assistance willingly.
I did that years ago over the Boy Scouts flap.
CFC is significantly different. While United Way is one of the groups that can be chosen, you can earmark which charities that you want to receive your money. There were always a few politically incorrect choices available, and then there were some local organizations available. You got to choose where your money went. And if you didn’t want to do the payroll deduction, a check for $10 or $25 would count toward your unit’s participation. And finally, at least at the agencies with which I am familiar, they would pick one of the lower ranking employees to do the shakedown, not the big boss in the corner office.
United Way, on the other hand, was a top down organization. They, not you, picked where your money was going to go, and they used the big boss in the corner office to extort it.
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I haven’t given a penny to that extortion mob in my 71 years of life.
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>> “ I know who needs help in my neighborhood and give such assistance willingly.” <<
AMEN! - only way to give, ever.
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And they give to orgs that are totally reprehensible.
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