There are charities that I still give to...I was thinking more in line with the telemarketer phone banks soliciting for groups like NYPIRG, PETA, etc... although I am very likely to not donate to charities who help potential Obama voter types such as food banks and others for the so-called downtrodden (re: drug addicts, various and sundry loser types, and illegal aliens) and I also include breast cancer in that group because the Komen Foundation forwards a grant to Planned Parenthood.
Nope, I am becoming more and more resentful of the poor. In fact, I detest them down to the last.
I happen to know the assistant director of the local food bank. She told me that this food bank is seeing more and more people who would never have come to the food bank before. People who had good careers, but the employer closed or downsized, or some catastrophic illness wiped them out financially. These aren’t the usual Obamaphone slackers. They are middle class or upper middle class, or they were before disaster struck.
Look, I can’t tell you who to contribute to, but I’d just like for you to consider that not everyone who seeks charitable assistance is a lazy, entitlement whore. As this economy gets worse and our dear leader starts raiding whatever we have in the name of redistribution of wealth, I expect to see more and more people you and I are close to looking for help. Maybe even you and me.