Reply #34: Please do NOT donate to Red Cross [View All]

[durtee librul]

They do not use donations the way they were intended to be used and most of it goes into a slush fund for National Hdqtrs. The ONLY way it will be used for NO is if you SPECIFY ON THE CHECK what it is to be used for....so again, if you give to NO thru the Red Cross, please make sure you say EXACTLY where you want your $$ to go.

When I was paid staff there, I saw way too much and it just made me ill to see those pandering aholes on teebee during Katrina asking for more and more money.

FYI for all you out there - if Red Cross 'helps' you and you have house insurance, you sign a paper that when your insurance money comes in, you reimburse them. While I could understand that to a point, I think it takes away from their so called 'humanitarian' efforts. There's more to them that I could go on and on about, but that's not what this thread is for.