You may not be aware that someday the Sun will burn out. Your Red Cross is working diligently to prevent this disaster. They have hired a team of not sufficently paid executives to study this problem, giving them each a pittance $400,000 annual salary and a pitiful, but equal amount for personal expenses.
You may be assured your Red Cross will be there if the Sun begins buring out, posing for the cameras and selling donuts and coffee at a resonable fee, snubbing their noses at those obviously less important Salvation Army persons actually at the disaster site quietly serving the public.
And, you need to know that some very important future hopeful VIPs serve on the boards of various local Red Cross chapters and, yes, while primarily looking to improve their resumes, are not totally incompetent and do enjoy seeing their names in the paper as persons who are "doing something."
If you are unsure of how much you should give, call their convenient 800 number and the nice lady with the Jamican accent will give you three free minutes on hold and then charge you a mere $9.00 per minutes to discuss the reasons you should support the Red Cross.
I'm not an accountant, but I'm fairly certain I can adjust my $400,000 salary to whatever amount necessary to ensure that the organization shows no profit at the end of the year.
And the best part of all is that I'd be admired as an altruist -- a hero!
Where do I sign up to run some kinda outfit like that? It sure beats the snot outta the work I'm doing now!
Have no problem with this expenditure, but they never should have taken so much blood in if they did not already have a place to freeze it. That was wasteful.
counseling,
Have no problem with this as long as it is the WTC victims and families. They will need counseling to get through the grief and some of those who escaped will need counseling for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
and future attacks
This is where I draw the line. This money was raised for the WTC victims and their families and should go for services to them and only them.
I understand that there are some administrative costs that are involved in administering a program such as the RC. I understand that some equipment may have to be upgraded to handle a disaster of this magnitude. I do not understand, however, the exorbitant salaries made by RC honchos, they are outrageous. And I can never forgive things such as the grant to law firms to defend terrorist suspects.
So, people donate blood to the Red Cross, and the Red Cross turns around and sells it? How is that right?