Scamming the murderers' support base

Subject: Scamming the murderers' support base Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:11 pm

An envelope arrived in our office the other day. It had the bulky, tawdry look of junk mail: pink and lavender Easter eggs, a plastic address window and a photo of a young man in fatigue shorts using crutches to stand on his only leg. “Thousands of severely wounded troops are suffering,” it read. “Will you help them this Easter?”

It was a plea for money from the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes, one of the worst private charities — but hardly the only — that have been shamefully milking easy cash from the suffering and heartache caused by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The coalition and its sister organization, Help Hospitalized Veterans, were among a dozen military-related charities given a grade of F in a study last December by the American Institute of Philanthropy, a nonprofit watchdog group. These and other charities have collected hundreds of millions of dollars from kind-hearted Americans and squandered an unconscionable amount of it on overhead and expenses — 70 percent or 80 percent, or more. The usual administrative outlay for a reputable charity is about 30 percent. Money that donors surely assumed was going to ease the pain and speed the healing of injured soldiers went instead to junk-mail barrages, inflated executive salaries and other forms of corporate-style bloat.

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Beautiful...

Hey, maybe we should start one too... bet we could do even better, than 70-80% corporate bloat...

Twisted Evil

Subject: Re: Scamming the murderers' support base Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:04 pm

Quote :: Hey, maybe we should start one too... bet we could do even better, than 70-80% corporate bloat...

We might have missed the boat in this particular case, but let's be ready for the next... :rock on:

Scamming the murderers' support base

Scamming the murderers' support base

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