After one month and nearly one billion dollars, two things are very clear:
Charities have no place in a capitalist system. Charities have no place in the proverbial “Protestant Work Ethic.” Charities throw a massive monkey wrench into areas of the market covered by insurance and government cheese.
If a charity must do something besides waste valuable TV and radio airtime with nonsense commercials, publish worthless glossy pamphlets, give themselves bonuses for exploiting government grant programs or doing photo-ops with “inner-city” children, they are lost. Their lack of direction is not well-hidden and they know it.
148 charities have raised a disgusting amount of money with no real plan to distribute it any further than their collective personal bank accounts. With the 6000+ missing rapidly approaching 6000+ dead and no success stories coming from any charities, we can only assume they are the vampires that modern capitalist theorists have always accused them of being.
Bodybags doesn’t begin to describe the 9/11 attacks. The unfortunate truth is closer to “body parts”. Americans, in a blind desire to help, followed a seemingly safe and logical and–in most cases–plausible way to contribute to the rescue and clean-up efforts in New York and Washington D.C.
The goodwill of this country has been blindsided and exploited by corruption no better than the pricks that ran scam charities with the intent of criminal profit.
At least those guys were honest.
