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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the one with the 75K HHI who is also not donating right now. I agree with PP that what she does with her money is her business -- I feel the same way. I think what's rubbing me the wrong way in this conversation is that people (not necessarily the PP, but some others) seem really PROUD that they're not giving anything to charity. "I don't know anything about these charities, I don't know where the money is going, Obama did X and now I'm going to do the same thing..." Come on, folks. All of us posting on this thread are probably college-educated and have access to telephones and computers. 
We could probably find any number of charitable organizations that will be happy to talk with us about what they do, how they function, etc. If folks WANTED to know where their money is going, they could find out -- there are more organizations out there besides the huge ones like the Red Cross or United Way. So let's not pretend to be ignorant. Just say, I don't want to give to anyone else right now -- either because I don't feel I have the money (that would be me) or because I don't think that charitable giving is a good use of my money, or I hate the poor, or whatever.

Again, I also am not making charitable donations right now (and I'm not going to pretend that my periodic donations to Goodwill "count," I haven't given anything to them that could be worth multiple hundreds of dollars, much less multiple thousands of dollars) So I'm not trying to speak from some kind of holier-than-thou place. But I'm also not blaming the charities themselves, or Obama, or some woman on food stamps who bought an expensive car, for my choices. [/quote]

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