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United Way Hopes Poor Seen in New Light
AP ^ | LARRY NEUMEISTER

Posted on 09/08/2005 8:07:54 AM PDT by Millee

The neglect of the nation's poor that has become so evident in New Orleans is happening in other major cities as well, the head of the United Way said Wednesday.

"This is a wake-up call for America," said Brian Gallagher, president and chief executive officer of United Way of America, which has taken a lead role in resettling tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors.

Gallagher and other leaders of charitable groups met with President Bush on Tuesday to plead for a long-term solution.

Gallagher said he told Bush a commitment to spend billions of dollars on flood walls, hotels and casinos must be met with billions more spent on human infrastructure such as mixed-income housing, community policing, green space and other needs.

"It would be a moral mistake to rebuild certain neighborhoods back the way they were, and economically it would be a mistake," Gallagher said.

"While New Orleans poverty numbers are extreme, they are not vastly different than the majority of major cities in America," he said.

Gallagher said Bush told the group the hurricane-damaged area would get long-term attention, not just a Band-Aid response.

United Way, the nation's largest privately funded nonprofit with $4 billion in annual fundraising, has received as much as $20 million in new donations since the hurricane hit, Gallagher said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: katrina; poverty; unitedway
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Property can be rebuilt, but it's up to the individuals to maintain them and not be satisfied living in squalor.
1 posted on 09/08/2005 8:07:54 AM PDT by Millee
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To: Millee

Amen


2 posted on 09/08/2005 8:09:06 AM PDT by auto power
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To: auto power

bttt


3 posted on 09/08/2005 8:11:21 AM PDT by brivette
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To: Millee
It would be a mistake to rebuild with the same corrupt liberal and socialist policies that caused the squalor in the first place...
4 posted on 09/08/2005 8:11:51 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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"While New Orleans poverty numbers are extreme, they are not vastly different than the majority of major cities in America," he said.

It must be said......who is in charge in most inner cities? Democrats/Socialists......put Churches in charge and watch these areas change...... what's that saying.....DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER IS THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY....

5 posted on 09/08/2005 8:12:34 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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The neglect of the nation's poor that has become so evident

What??????

We have given TRILLIONS of dollars to the poor and still have them... Why not ask after paying them so much, they have done nothing to help themselves or the rest of society?


6 posted on 09/08/2005 8:13:02 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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Gee, what a novel idea. Give money to poor people to make them un-poor. Build parks and fountains for them because their neighborhoods look like war zones.

Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this before?

(steely)

7 posted on 09/08/2005 8:13:13 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
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I am seeing a subset of the poor in a stronger version of an old light - the rabble. It's one thing to be what I would term honorable poor. That's the old fashioned way that people would cope with poverty. Whereas, this subset are more like self induced poor - blacks who refuse to learn, assimilate, act in a socially acceptable manner because their friends raz them about "being too white" or being "Uncle Toms," as well as the general welfare dependency culture (true for all ethnic and racial backgrounds among the rabble), and just a generally sick way of life. Sorry if this offends, but I make a distinction between the honorable poor and the rabble.


8 posted on 09/08/2005 8:13:43 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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Another reason why I don't give money to the United Way. My main beef with them, though, is the way they try to get your boss to coax you into "Voluntary" donations.


9 posted on 09/08/2005 8:13:46 AM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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United Way, the nation's largest privately funded nonprofit with $4 billion in annual fundraising, has received as much as $20 million in new donations since the hurricane hit, Gallagher said.

That's unfortunate. Donations can be much better directed than via the United Way.

10 posted on 09/08/2005 8:13:48 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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Gallagher said he told Bush a commitment to spend billions of dollars on flood walls, hotels and casinos must be met with billions more spent on human infrastructure such as mixed-income housing, community policing, green space and other needs.

The private sector is much better at designing "human infrastructure" that does not turn into murderous slum Hell-holes than any government agency, especially that cesspool of socialist bureaucrats named "HUD."

11 posted on 09/08/2005 8:14:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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Isn't the United Way the "charity" that refuses to give to the Boy Scouts because homosexuals aren't allowed to be alone with young boys?

I don't need lectures from the UW.

12 posted on 09/08/2005 8:15:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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I see the poor as victimized by incompetent Democrats.


13 posted on 09/08/2005 8:15:19 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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I thought Lyndon Johnson and the democrats eliminated poverty forty years ago. Silly me.

 

14 posted on 09/08/2005 8:15:29 AM PDT by Fintan (If this tagline lasts longer than 4 hours, please consult a physician.)
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The neglect of the nation's poor that has become so evident in New Orleans is happening in other major cities as well, the head of the United Way said Wednesday......United Way, the nation's largest privately funded nonprofit with $4 billion in annual fundraising, has received as much as $20 million in new donations since the hurricane hit, Gallagher said.

Ungrateful, money-grubbing bastard.

The United Way can go to hell.

15 posted on 09/08/2005 8:17:03 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Every evil which liberals imagine Judaism and Christianity to be, islam is.)
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What you said and how you said it is soooo correct and succinct......needs highlighting....maybe some of those "journalists" reading FR will see it!!!

"I see the poor as victimized by incompetent Democrats."

16 posted on 09/08/2005 8:17:19 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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Isn't the United Way the "charity" that refuses to give to the Boy Scouts because homosexuals aren't allowed to be alone with young boys?

Hey, get with the program.

Charity isn't limited to just giving away other people's money.

(steely)

17 posted on 09/08/2005 8:17:26 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
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How long has the "war on poverty" been going on? With, apparently, no effect whatever. So here's the answer: keep throwing money at it. Yeah. That always works.


18 posted on 09/08/2005 8:17:49 AM PDT by hsalaw
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I would not donate one cent to the United Way. They have a long history of corruption. The donations gave the executives a lavish life style.

Further, America saw the ugliest side of people and yes, we never knew that people would be praying on each other rather than organizing to help each other.

19 posted on 09/08/2005 8:18:52 AM PDT by OldFriend (MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ~ A NATIONAL TREASURE)
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Word!


20 posted on 09/08/2005 8:18:54 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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