To the 650 people who donated $100 apiece to Bread for the World to help fund their work in protecting hungry and homeless people from the budget cuts our government needs to make: Thank you very much! This money will help very much in their important work.
For a little more insight into the situation from a caring and faith perspective, this article by Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine is interesting. Also, Jim visited our studio last year for an interview on my radio program.
Of course, when you need to get elected, you talk about the struggles of the middle class. But many people on our planet are struggling just to have the struggles of the middle class. We just gave many of them a bit of a Christmas present.
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Seemingly a good cause and very deserving. I like United Way because it is local.
If you want to give locally, give to your local food pantry directly. Take a look sometime at where much of the money goes when you give to major charities like United Way, Red Cross and so forth. A big chunk goes to salaries and overhead, not to people in need. Same thing with the Humane Society of the US (which has really become a second arm of PETA). If you want your local animal shelter to thrive, give directly to it, not to the HSUS which spends huge amounts of money on advertising, lobbying congress and salaries and nothing trickles down to the local shelter.