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Old Oct 8, 2004, 04:23 pm   #19 (permalink) (top)
Nono
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Originally posted by m5lange1
Charity is personal and you fully control (it).
Are you talking about handing out quarters (or pizza or blankets) on the street? Or giving money to charities? When you give money to a large charity (and many are huge) what makes you think that it will be used the way you would wish? It ain't that simple: as soon as any organization exceeds a certain (pretty small) size, the symptoms usually attributed to Big Bad Government set in. That's just bureaucratic human nature, and entropy.


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