Last year I donated 57% of my annual income to charity.

You're a solid good human being.
Thanks

Eegore wrote on 06/21/19 at 11:48:19:


It means I better put my weenie back in me britches before I hurt myself....

You are very generous, no make that, EXTREMELY generous!

I still have money taken out monthly from my Boeing pension ( it use to come directly out of my paycheck ) to a variety of charities, pooling the money with other employees and a certain percentage match by Boeing itself.    

I started donating to this, years ago, you prolly heard of it, wish I could give them as much of my income as you do, their organization is amazing!

https://www.treehousefoundation.net/

About welfare assistance to folks prior to going homeless, as being a better way to address this.....I AGREE, and actually years ago brought this up with a US Senator in her home (I was doing plumbing). I asked her why we didn't have a "bridge income" with assistance still provided on a sliding scale until they can get their skills and income up to a sustainable level. I told her I believe MOST folks want to be productive, that it fosters self worth which is so extremely important to a healthy mindset, etc.....

She said it was a good idea.

Never heard another word from her about it.

I also mentioned how the goverment could use small contractors to train trades people. I told her how when I first started up my contracting business, it was hard to be able to expand, hire people to train, because it cost money before they reach a level of competence that starts to generate income for my business, not to mention how the goverment adds further financial burdens to that as well with business, tax, etc, requirements.

That if they could provide tax breaks, and even financial assistance to apprentices/trainees, as well as to the business providing the training, the end results would be a growing and tax revenue producing business, and tradespeople who can now live a sustainable life, even starting their OWN business, and keep this program going to greater societal benefits, etc....

That got repeated replies, but I believe it got nixed because of unions.....feeling like it would steal their opportunities in this manner.

I did homeless outreach for years, once a month.....
I learned lots, the stories were very enlightening, but it just got to risky as the drug culture became more prevalent.

I still believe we have organized crime involved in this now, making money off of selling drugs, which has pushed the downtrodden into the same "boat" but they are not, they want to work, etc, but are caught up in a very dysfunctional goverment approach to this problem....sad.  

NOTE: Please put this reply in my GOOD folder      

On coming to power during 1933 the Nazis began to establish a network of camps. These were initially concentration camps due to the fact that they were used to concentrate enemies  of the state in one place.  These people included communists, socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Roma, and so called ‘asocials’.

However, after March 1938, when the Germans annexed Austria into German territory, many thousands of German Jews were arrested and detained in Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.

Extermination camps sole purpose was murder. They were set up near railway lines to make transportation of the victims easy. As they were purely killing centres, there were no selections. The victims were sent directly to the gas chambers.

https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/types-of-camps/

Best regards,

Serowbot wrote on 06/24/19 at 16:24:12:



The reason why the Germany was socialist is due to the fact it was not a capitalist economy, which is contrary to what the Communists and all other Marxists have claimed.

There was no private ownership of the means of production under the Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership resided in the German government.

Best regards,

Serowbot wrote on 06/24/19 at 16:24:12: