Posted on 07/12/2018 11:26:43 AM PDT by grundle
A woman named Emily Skopov started a non-profit organization called No Crayon Left Behind.
The charity collects used crayons from restaurants and other organizations and gives them to people who can’t afford them.
When the collected crayons are misshapen, Skopov melts them down on her own stove and molds them into new crayons.
Skopov said she spends spends approximately 45 hours a week volunteering for No Crayon Left Behind.
In addition, she hired a consultant and has a paid staff as well.
She also rents an office.
Skopov said of her endeavor:
“I purposely haven’t kept track of how much I’ve spent because it would freak me out, but it’s got to be thousands of dollars.”
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart sells a box of 64 brand new crayons for $2.94.
So here’s my question: Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just buy new crayons?
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As usual, totally symbolic, and deeply stupid!
No Crayon Left Behind is a typical leftist ‘charity.’
They flunk economics across the board.
In addition, she hired a consultant and has a paid staff as well.
She also rents an office.
/I could be wrong, but it sounds like yet another poverty pimp working in the Poverty industrial complex.
Yup. In addition to all of the sales on crayons, there are many local charities, church groups, scouts, etc. that do things like make school supply backpacks for poor kids, buy supplies for schools to pass out to those who need them, etc. Everybody’s got crayons, for cryin’ out loud.
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