Posted on 11/08/2001 5:16:12 PM PST by gumbo
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:37:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I don't take what you wrote as criticism at all. In fact, it is good advice. But, as it goes, people make choices about the kinds of windmills at which they wish to tilt. My boss does not care about the UW, and wouldn't be impressed with my argument about where the money goes. She just wants 100% compliance so that her departmet looks good. I don't want to draw attention to my politics because I need my job, so I keep my nose clean, throw away 10 bucks, and go home at the end of the day.
Yours,
ConLib
With such practices in mind, I swore that once out of the Army, I would never donate to the United Way, and haven't, since.
"Drugs and prostitution are for suckers. My business is far more profitable and untouchable, so give to your favorite 'charity'". - Famous mafia Don
Also when you mark a certain charity if that charity has already met their goal of money donated, the United Way will take your money and put it elsewhere at their discretion!
Must admit this latest deal of theirs is the lowest they have sunk and I didn't think they could get any lower. Question: Is ms. clinton somehow involved with the United Way? This just sounds like something she would have them do!
This goes to show that as long as the Democrats can get votes they have an invested interest to continue a failed immigration policy. A policy that allows people to come into the country who have no interest in learning English or becoming Americans.
Annie: United Way comingles donations and is so centralized that there is plenty of opportunity for abuse. When I learned that decades ago, I stopped donating at work. If you think there's no pressure and public humilation of nongivers at the office, you are very much mistaken. I had to take criticism every year by our collections lieutenant who also had dominion over my work assignments. The whole setup stinks out loud.
Mega Dittos. My donations went to a prominent, (or maybe not so prominent,) local talk show guy who delivered in person. Even cartons of cigarettes to the Firemen and Policemen who were being refused them by PC charities onsite. You don't know how much blood the Red Cross destroyed and how sickeningly PC both the UW and RC are. From free abortions to legal aid for terrorists. Ef'm.
patent
No, sorry. The Legal Aid Society IS the government; and it doesn't work to protect our freedoms - IT WORKS TO TAKE AWAY OUR MONEY AND RESDISTRIBUTE IT TO LEFT WING PET PROJECTS.
Legal Aid Societies, around the country, are funded by the "Legal Services Corporation" -- which is a federal program leeching off OUR TAX MONEY.
This is all I have time to post for now. Read this and weep: The real cost of the Legal Services Corporation.
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President Clinton proposes to spend $415 million in his budget next year for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). But this does not begin to measure the real costs of the LSC. That $415 million goes to fund a legal and political crusade by left-wing lawyers and political activists to hold up middle-class taxpayers for unbounded income redistribution and welfare schemes.From the beginning, a principal avowed purpose of the Legal Services movement has been "law reform." That means changing the law wherever possible to suit the left-wing ideology of the Legal Services activists. The very essence of that ideology is class warfare, organizing tax-users, as a class, against tax-payers, for the purpose of taking from those who have, to give to those who don't.
This is all the more insidious because these left-wing activists can bring their cases before left-wing judges, whose avowed legal philosophy is not to rule in accordance with their personal biases. Their rulings then serve as precedents.
"here's only one reason to donate to them--if your boss is a tyrant and will fire you for not giving."
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In that case..I'd recommend the employee give a penny, or a nickel. Doing that costs the U. W. more than the donation is worth.
FRegards
You got that right -- to the tune of $78 MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS last year. And that's only from the city -- what untold millions they received from the federal government, I don't know!
Legal aid societies are "private" in name only. Any entity that receives the bulk of its money from the taxpayers is not "private."
And yes, they've been around a long time, but their character has changed. What once may have been a noble institution to "serve the poor" has become, since the '60s, a haven for radical leftists bent on re-shaping America...
The new, federally funded "legal services" agencies could not have been more different from the traditional voluntary legal aid societies—and over time they inexorably molded traditional legal aid into their exact image.The goal of the [old] legal aid societies had been due-process justice: making sure that the poor have their day in court. The new legal services agencies had something quite different in mind: the redistribution of political and economic power...
...And how did the new legal services attorneys propose to "change the structure of the world"? By encouraging judges to create a whole new battery of rights.
What was unfolding in the 1960s was nothing less than a reordering of government: a shifting of power from the legislature to the courts, with federally funded attorneys as the driving force. Nothing in the traditional legal aid movement anticipated this development...
--Heather MacDonald, What Good is Pro-Bono? [emphasis mine]
By the way if you felt forced by your employer to support United Way against your will, this is harassment and it is illegal.
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