[Tennessee_Bob]

And our huge, multi-billion dollar company gave $250,000, plus they'll match our donations provided they go to the Red Cross.

I'm more impressed by Afghanistan giving $100,000, and a group of tsunami victims that scraped together $2,600.

[pageonetoo]

...Wal-Mart, even before Katrina hit, had mobilised its world-class distribution network to stock New Orleans-area stores with bottled water, canned food and other essentials. It gave $3 million worth of items, $2 million to the American Red Cross and Salvation Army and has pledged $15 million to the relief fund run by former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

According to published accounts the Walton Family Foundation has donated $8 million to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and $7 million to relief organisations, including the Salvation Army, America's Second Harvest, a food-bank network, and the Foundation for the Mid South.

[untrained skeptic]

"And our huge, multi-billion dollar company gave $250,000, plus they'll match our donations provided they go to the Red Cross."

Corporations aren't in the donation business. They make money for their investors. The investors can donate their money if they choose to do so, but when a corporation donates money, it's donating someone else's money.

"I'm more impressed by Afghanistan giving $100,000, and a group of tsunami victims that scraped together $2,600."

That is extremely impressive and generous.

[Chanticleer]

My husband's law firm (remember, the scum-sucking lowlife heartless types?) matched employee/associate donations 4 to 1 and partner donations 2 to 1. The firm raised over $145,000 for the Red Cross for Hurricane Relief. In January, the firm raised $40,000 for tsunami relief.

Of course, it will either be ignored or downplayed -- "of course, THEY can afford it!", many will think. Doesn't matter -- I'm proud of them.