Poverty Porn & Bogus Charities

By John Farnam

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Pious Profanity!

Particularly with CNN and Fox News, I grow weary of endlessly watching “poverty pornography,” pumped over the wire by dubious organizations, sanctimoniously representing themselves as “charities.”

We are treated to interminable disturbing/offensive photos of starving people (including weeping children) shivering animals, all with ever-anguished faces, amid pleading solicitations for money. We never get to know whom these children are, nor where/when photos were taken.

I remember when philanthropist, and one-time presidential candidate, Ross Perot, bitterly lamented that his biggest problem when deciding which professing “charities” he should endow, was finding any of them, even one, who spend money intelligently!

Extracting money from guilt-ridden Americans is big business, and the extraction process has become a goal in itself!

Perot discovered that executives administering many of these ostensible “charities” paid themselves obscene salaries, spent most of their time traveling to “conventions” (always first-class), staying in five-star hotels, and occasional making slobbering speeches about “the poor.”

He concluded, correctly, that most, particularly the biggest, were rackets, doing little more than providing cushy life-styles for their promoters and executives, and cynical solicitation speeches delivered …Read the Rest

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