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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Surely you can make your own donations without the government doing it for you.[/quote]

The government isn’t doing it for you.  Lots of companies have philanthropy programs, not just the fed gov.  You can participate or not, up to you.  No one says anything if you don’t.  No one says anything if you do. There are literally thousands of charities employees can choose from.[/quote]

The difference is that in the cases you mention private companies are drawing from their own budgets (although admittedly almost certainly writing off some portion of the expenditures in taxes) to fund these philanthropy programs.

With the CFC, federal government agencies are diverting taxpayer dollars that are intended to be specifically directed to a stated mission to fund a generic philanthropic campaign of questionable efficiency without any say in which charities will benefit/how the money will be used.[/quote]

Well, no.  The time spent is minimal.  I’d guess people spend just as much wasted time on talking to colleagues about a lot of things.  These days, maybe Jesus, maybe not.  But no one, government or not, spends 100% of their workday on mission related work.  Doesn’t happen.[/quote]

Our agency actually had several people each year who were completely diverted from their regular jobs to serve as cfc campaign leads, in addition to the dozens who were asked to provide more ad hoc support.

Regardless, do you think that the people who are tapped to provide part time cfc support are not still taking additional time to chat with their colleagues, take coffee breaks etc? It’s just added time diverted from mission work.[/quote]

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