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.