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In reply to the discussion: Donations to Internet Personas - A Good Idea? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)who are in need. We are all adults and can decide these things for ourselves.
I donate to homeless people DIRECTLY when I see them on the street, I don't care what they do with it, or even if once in a while, they don't perhaps need it.
Most liberals understand that it is the 'giving' that matters, and don't generally worry too much about the rest.
We are scammed far more by our own government and their Big Bank donors than we could ever be by someone who may not actually be starving, but isn't even close to the league of the crooks we just bailed out with TRILLIONS who collapsed the world's economies.
How does your personal practice help stop you from having to bail out some of the worst financial scammers in the history of the world, as many have described it?
Thanks for your concern, 'give and you shall receive'. Not a reason for giving, and receiving doesn't necessarily mean money, but it helps people not to become cynical and selfish to try to help others whenever they can.
And as another good DUer said, 'I don't care if they buy wine or beer or cigarettes' with it, as Right Wingers always used to 'warn' me about. Once I give it to them, it is THEIRS and none of my business.