"palmtreedreamer" wrote in
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Maybe so. Sorry to snap but the way you put things seemed really quite
harsh.\
Talking about other people's money is a harsh affair. One has to ask hard
questions. I'm sorry if I offended.
I've done some net snooping and found some interesting items:
http://www.bloodbook.com/part-4.html
They're talking, mostly, about Red Cross' stranglehold on the blood
business, not paying taxes on its $51/unit profits ($11/unit commercially
after taxes). But, some relative numbers to our discussion show up here.
For instance:
"In Philadelphia, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of Red Cross
received 52 percent - or $3,173,506 - of its funding in 1988 from United
Way contributions. The chapter had total revenues of $6.1 million last year
and spent $885,036 on disaster services. Its largest expenditures were
nearly $1.6 million contributed to national headquarters in Washington and
$1.1 million for management and chapter activities."
It took $1.1M plus the "franchise fee" of $1.6M to run Philadelphia's Red
Cross? $885K on disasters is 14.5% of the total take of $6.1M. It's only
27.8% of your United Way contribution. A LOT of the rest, much more than
any relief it gave, went to "management and chapter activities", like those
$150,000 salaries they pay top bureaucrats. Is that fair? I think NOT.
I found this on another site run by the Red Cross, itself....
"•The Red Cross has continued to provide services and assistance to those
directly affected by the September 11 attacks, beyond the period covered in
the audited financial statements. As of November 1, 2002, the Red Cross had
received an unprecedented $1.052 billion in contributions (including $60
million of in-kind materials and services); $756 million of which has
already been disbursed. With these generous contributions, the Red Cross
already has provided:
o $276 million in direct assistance to 3,396 families of the deceased and
seriously injured;
o $280 million to approximately 51,000 families of displaced workers,
residents and disaster workers; and
o $139 million in immediate disaster relief that has provided an estimated
14 million meals, mental health services for approximately 236,000 people
and health services for approximately 133,000 people (including $40 million
of in-kind materials and services)."
Hmm...let's do the math. We took in $1052M and gave out $276M to 3396
families in 9/11. That works out to 26% of the take. Oddly, if you divide
up $276M by 3396 families you get $81,272/family. Do you really think they
were writing out checks for $81 grand to these people? That's an awful lot
of money for disaster relief, isn't it? Does anyone know how much money
someone actually got that they know about? Was it 81 grand?!
$280M went to families of displaced workers, residents and "disaster
workers". What disaster workers? Red Cross employees, perhaps? What
"displaced workers"? Are they victims or not? I don't think we can count
this pile as reaching the VICTIMS' families. Too vaguely veiled.
$139M went for 14,000,000 meals. Who ate 'em? Noone in the towers ate
'em. They all died! Noone in NYC ate 'em. All the restaurants and
grocery stores were open, right? Who ate 14,000,000 meals? Bangledeshis?
Wow! The shrinks took a big pot away...236,000 cases! 133,000 was the
doctors' cut. The biggest medical cases were probably from overeating the
14,000,000 meals I can't figure out who ate. There weren't "refugees" in
NY or DC. Mass shelters didn't open up to house disaster victims. Did the
cleanup workers, firemen and cops eat 'em? No...they went home and ate
Mom's cooking. Doesn't this sound even remotely "fishy"?
So, we're looking at Red Cross handing out, really, some where around 30-
35% of the $1,052,000,000 people sent them. Where is the rest of it stored
($736 MILLION plus all the interest it's been making) and when can we
expect it to BE SENT TO NEW ORLEANS, BILOXI, GULF PORT and the destroyed
parishes of MS and LA?..... Was it stolen?
That's just the "surplus" they didn't hand out to 9/11 victim families!
--
Larry
I keep hearing this great sucking sound. Don't you?