Posted on 09/08/2017 11:12:53 AM PDT by DFG
A Houston councilman discouraged residents from donating to the Red Cross in the wake of Hurricane Harvey at a council meeting Wednesday, the Houston Chronicle reports. Council member Dave Martin, who represents the Kingwood area of Houston, begged residents "not to give a penny" to the Red Cross, but to give money instead to "another cause." "They are the most inept, unorganized organization I've ever experienced," Martin said.
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Red Cross shows photos of little kids in Texas then sends money to muslim killers. I’d never give them a dime.
Want to donate to Hurricane Harvey or Irma? Read this first
RC discussed.
I send money to Direct Relief. They received an extremely high rating from the web site rating the honesty and ethics of charity organizations. I have them on a monthly small amount because I have no more to give. FR is on the same small monthly amount for the same reason.
So nothing has changed since Liddy Dole ran it.
This has been true for a LOoooooong time! Like many “iconic” institutions, a way too high percentage of ANY and ALL monies given to the Red Cross goes abeth to keeping this lumbering behemoth of a bureaucracy, well, goes to keeping it being “The Red Cross”-—it is Big Government by another name-—no wonder it was once run by a prominent Senator’s wife, Elizabeth Dole.
Salvation Army or Convoy of Hope, they're legit.
As I understand it from an article I read minutes ago, the Red Cross claimed to have built over 1,000 homes (I think it was 1,200 to 1,300 homes) in Haiti. People who investigated were only able to find six.
The RC does hand off money to private concerns after it takes a cut of the massive pool of funds. It’s possible those private concerns built more homes.
The investigators didn’t seem convinced of it.
I’m not sure who the investigating agency was, the press or some government or other entity.
duck and cover
Remember 911? Money poured into the Red Cross......and then they said.....hey, we’re not gonna spend it all here. We’re gonna save a bunch of it.
That’s when I knew NEVER to give to the Red Cross.
GMTA
I read the very same article yesterday. They are very horrible people.
For real: Death to the Red Cross. They can go to hell beginning with what they did to our troops in WW2: Billed them for goods and services.
Couple of days ago, I read somewhere that the government reimbursed them for a lot of the things they do.
If that’s true, just damn.
Folks are donating and they’re getting reimbursed?
Wow!
The American Red Cross is chartered by Congress.
Why on earth would I ever expect it to efficiently provide relief to disaster victims?
Like everything else connected with Congress, I should have expected to be ineffectively managed by politically connected cronies and wasteful in all of its activities. But I thought the A.R.C.’s scale would facilitate rapid distribution of relief even if it were less efficient than other groups. It seems that was not the case.
Fortunately, most of my Harvey donations went to Salvation Army and food banks.
Good, pat your self on the back for such holier than thou action
It is a racket, and they know how to work the system.
The Red Cross does not exist to help during emergencies.
The Red Cross exists to enrich the executives and upper management of the Red Cross.
the red cross is good at passing out volunteer vests to people already volunteering. Money goes to their general fund and no guarantees.
My grandfather was a WW 1 vet, my dad WW2 and they told me NEVER give money to the Red Cross. I havent.
I’m not sure what aspects of the Red Cross are touched by malfeasance, but my suspicions are that considerable of them are.
You very well could be exactly right.
I’ve believed for years they are inept and corrupt, bested on evidence from Katrina, etc. Nice to get more confirmation.
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