Posted on 08/22/2016 6:42:18 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
After historic floods drove thousands from their homes this past week, Brandi Lipsey drove from her hometown in Concordia Parish to Ascension Parish with a trailer full of brand new medical supplies.
She arrived at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center, where hundreds of evacuees were being housed. But the shelter, which receives support from the American Red Cross, rejected her haul of wheel chairs, crutches, canes, diabetic supplies and other goods like clothes and water, Lipsey said.
She wasn't allowed to bring her donations inside of the facility, so people in the shelter, many of whom left their homes with only the clothes on their backs, came outside to her trailer where she handed out goods directly.
(Excerpt) Read more at theadvocate.com ...
The Red Cross is slime.
Dealt with them during a flood in OK.
Slime.
Pure slime.
Did this have to be an excerpt? I cannot handle the ads and other popups on the site but would like to read the entire article.
A large bureaucracy, mostly designed to suck in money, and to snuff out any spirit of communities or individuals doing anything to help.
The most important thing to them is that everything be organized, and that they have full control.
As one pointed out in an earlier post today,
The Red Cross, a nonprofit organization, made a billion dollar profit!!
Red Cross HQ is in Washington DC. United Way HQ in Alexandria VA. Basically DC again.
They are both tools. Essentially when dealing with them, you are dealing with government disguised as philanthropy.
Yes, for expediency, before my eyes fall out of my head with sleep, I posted it as an excerpt.
Look at my earlier posting today .. it has the facebook link.
If you really want to find an organization that helps with no strings, it’s the Salvation Army.
“the organization is letting bureaucracy get in the way of common sense by denying offers for hot meals and turning away donations and volunteers that didn’t go through their own channels”
Sounds like they’ve reached the point where Job One is to keep the bureaucracy functioning to spec, and whatever else might be accomplished is a side effect.
Maybe the Clinton Crime Family foundation will get into the act too?
Inflexible Commies.
How unhelpful. But hey, they followed the rules!
Red Cross execs—even local ones—make 2 - 2 1/2 x their Salvation Army counterparts.
I agree!
“...it’s the Salvation Army.”
+1
Salvation Army is the oldest of these organizations, hasn’t lost its focus, and is unabashedly Christian.
United Way and Red Cross are both products of the progressive era and all that comes with it.
As a kid all through school I supported the March of Dimes like every other school kid collecting those cards full of dimes.
When Polio was thwarted I thought even as a high schooler that shutting down the MoD would have done wonders for future charities. It would have been a message that said, “ we did our job and so did you.”
But it was to big a bureaucracy to die honestly.
I deal with Salvation Army and Samaritans Purse. Never Red Cross or United Way.
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