Governments provide a floor for someone. Others if they wish can always do more for those people.
It is much better that money is handled privately as more of it will reach the wounded soldiers because:
1. There is no political battle about taking some of the money to help unwed mothers or something.
2. There is less lost in bureaucratic costs.
I believe only 57% of funds of the WWP go to actual services.
Fisher House Foundation has almost 95%.
WWP may have started out with the best of intentions, but between it’s anti-2A management and the endless commercials it runs, I think it’s turned into another cash cow for the people who run it.
2. . There is less lost in bureaucratic costs
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As long as it keeps on track...
Think Salvation Army vs Red Cross..
I think for awhile the director/directress off MADD basically had a ‘new Escalade’ every year, stayed at the finest hotels, ate at the finest restaurants based on the premise “We raise millions a year, how am I supposed to do that wooing potential clients at Motel 6 and buying them lunch at McDonalds”?
Which is a true statement BUT most of these things become another ‘private fiefdom’.
I Like Fischer House - the founders etc were rich to start with and the money is in direct support to Personnel confined to Military Hospitals..+ plus families.
People ‘get on’ Gates because of his out of country support etc but don’t forget a while back he was willing to work with officials to put computers in EVERY school - eventually got turned down, one of the reasons given it would give him an unfair advantage to train people on his equipment....
Of course when the local Ford Dealer gives the school district cars for Driver Ed, isn’t part of the reasoning that maybe the trainee will eventually buy a Ford because he likes the feel of it?
How about that Korman(??) fund for cancer - specifically breast cancer - giving BIG donations to PP and/or - directly or indirectly to Abortion clinics.
Kind of a crappy deal if you think your money is going to cancer research and it ends up going to ‘other’ outlets.
If you don’t need it for what is was solicited for, stop soliciting.....
some of these private groups are all overhead and very little goes where it is promised