we take advantage of the tax rules in reguards to charity, but the really true charity that we might do is something we can't claim....helping nephew or nieces, or other family members...not expected but appreciated...
I think if we got back to our foundation...that families worked together to see all their members thru school, sickness, joblessness,or any crisis....we would be so much better off...
my Vietnamese friend tells me she is expected to not only help her mother, her sisters, her brother in med school, but also her mother in law, and I am talking to the tune of thousands of dollars...and she is not rich...she is a caregiver....but its part of their culture that they take care of their own....I like it...
Well, the flip side of that argument is that an individual involuntarily burdened with meeting the needs of the collective - even a small collective like a family - is far less likely to have the time or mental energy to cure cancer or send rockets to the moon.
Well, the flip side of that argument is that an individual involuntarily burdened with meeting the needs of the collective - even a small collective like a family - is far less likely to have the time or mental energy to cure cancer or send rockets to the moon.