(05-13-2020, 07:52 PM)JJCarsonian Wrote: i like to donate straight to people. The Red Crosses and Salvation Army charities are really annoying. They spend alot of money on advertising and paying their top executives and alot of other overhead. Not a good use of money meant for others.
This is definitely true, and also the Salvation Army in particular discriminates against LGBT people when they are at a much greater risk of being homeless.
Picture it, a person kicked out by their Christian family or a person who has money to rent a room but because they're obviously LGBT can't afford to live on their own like many hundreds of millions of people on this planet..so they face plenty of rejection because it's just like a person who doesn't like blacks won't lynch blacks, but certainly won't be friend with one. "I have nothing against an LGBT person, but I don't want to be friends with one and I certainly won't allow one to live in my home. Absolutely not!!"
Homeless organizations get billions of dollars in funding, private and public sector assistance but don't do s*** to actually give people a place to live...which is actually what they need. Meanwhile the same public and private groups they'll pay for people to get locked up and give them food and..a place to live over marijuana. In the eyes of philosophically illuminated democrats and republicans alike this system makes perfect sense.
Big homeless has an incentive for there to be endless homelessness.
There's a market for taking care of hobos. Don't cut our funding!
