[quote=flu][quote=flyer]Good points, flu. Great to hear how you’re helping others.
Because we have the financial resources, and because we believe in the old adage, “Charity begins at home,” in addition to our own, we put 8 additional kids in our extended family through college, and helped them get into the careers they wanted, and I could go on and on from there.[/quote]
You know the biggest irony of so called “champions of the poor”… I’m wondering how many of them actually lifted a finger.
Seriously folks, I don’t need a lecture on “luck”.. If I was complaining about “luck”, I wouldn’t be sitting on my ass all day not working, because I have the luck of having a something that 1:10000 have. It’s why I’m still on chemo for the past 3 years. I’m saying this not because I need/want pity from any of you. In fact if you do, it would be the most nauseating/sickest fucking thing you would do. I’m saying it because well,
guess what
1) Life isn’t fair.
2) Shit happens.
3) Deal with it.
QED…[/quote]
I personally think it’s in bad taste to publicly talk about charitable acts, but since you seem to be specifically requesting this information as I’m one of the “champions of the poor,” I help out quite a few people in a variety of ways. I donate money to charities that help the poor, and also help out friends and family members who run into hard luck. Every month, for many years, we give money to a family friend who’s very elderly and has run out of funds. We also help friends with grocery, utility, and other bills when they’ve been unemployed. I also advise friends who own businesses with a variety of problems from financing to accounting to marketing ideas (experience from my past corporate life). I’ve also spent quite a bit of time tutoring students in and out of the public school system for free (experience from my teaching days).
I’ve publicly advocated for programs that help the poor and have participated in multiple protests and organizations that specifically set out to help the cause of working people and the poor. Before having kids, I was actively involved in public advocacy on a variety of issues, particularly taxpayer and consumer advocacy.
Not sure where you got the notion that “champions for the poor” don’t do anything to help others, but it’s way off the mark from everything I’ve ever seen.
