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I wouldn’t call a charity with an A- rating from CharityWatch a “travesty”.




All that means is that there are many worse charities.

I tried to look into it one time and find things written by people who watched from up close. It made me physically ill long before I looked at any substantial number of them.

I think the usual formula is to "pay" the CEO 200 k and spending the rest on ever larger promotion cycles.

What is needed in the west is a huge tax on charities and other non-profits to be entirely used to monitor their activities. Then we need to write draconian laws forcing them to insure and guarantee delivery.

Any sign of failure should result in persecution and the entire staff replaced - since we have plenty of volunteers.

We need to raise the standards like that to the point where government can safely pump funds into the mechanism when a situation calls for it.

I don't want to be called, receive letters and fill out paper work. I have better things to do. I'd much rather spend 50 bucks in [extra] tax for aid than suffering 2 hours of promotion to fund promotion every year.

When is gates going to provide drinking water to the entire world? Never? Then lets put him in prison and salvage the fund.


> What is needed in the west is a huge tax on charities and other non-profits to be entirely used to monitor their activities.

Nah. Just remove charitable donations from being tax-exempts, and then it's no longer a problem for the government when charities don't deliver, but a private problem of their donors.




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