“If you donate $100 to the Salvation Army, most of it will actually be used to help people.”
True, you’d might not be so excited to help some of these “needing people” if you saw a lot of them. At Christmas, I volunteered at the Salvation Army for their present give away.
The place was filled with rude people talking on their blue tooth phones who drove up in their Cadillac Escalades and women carrying $1000 purses.
Many of these people will claim they have 8 children.
I think I’d rather the $90 to go to a lazy government buerocrat.
It’s too bad that you had a bad experience. For several years, Forbes magazine has rated The Salvation Army as the best non-profit in the USA, in terms of the small administrative costs, and thus the highest percent of donations actually getting to the intended need.