PNagy wrote:
Charity can be a very deceptive thing. The Walmart in which I no longer shop is adorned with quote from Helen Walton, "It's not what you gather, it's what you scatter." When one nasty family gathers trillions through theft of labor and other unethical and illegal tricks, it is easy to look good by scattering about a few million in philanthropic donations. These do not put an appreciable dent in the problems they have caused; they are only cheap pr sleights of hand.
The charity strategy of the right is an integral part of their fundamental deception crafted by the robber barons of the Gilded Age. First, through their consummately greedy and rapacious policies, they destroy the lives of a third to half the people in the country. Then, after they had secured their third vacation home, replaced last year's yacht with a new one, and accumulated enough money to bailout a bankrupt country, they ostentatiously donate to charitable causes, thus rescuing perhaps one hundredth the number of people they have harmed. They still rape the environment and their fellow humans, but do so while taking public acclaim for how charitable they are, and salving what little conscience they have.
Charity can be a very deceptive thing. The Walmart... (
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