Charities to hate - part two

Now, by now I hope you've all read the post, and the news story.

You're wondering why I dislike it so much. It's for the children, right?

No, it's not about children, or africa, or even poverty and death. Its about influence.

This is a national charity, using funds you the people have given it to manipulate and guilt trip the public and the government.

Imagine you were approached by a national charity and asked to sign a bit of paper saying "Children dying is bad". Would you hesitiate? Even a second?

Then using those bits of paper - representing a tiny part of the population - to influence a politican. While politicians are open to manipulation....we then move onto the aims.

We're not talking about children in the uk. The charity is trying to get the government to pay for aid.

Lets rephrase. They want the governemnt to demand from you more money, complete with threat of force (aka tax) or imprisonment. This money is not to improve your life, or that of your neighbours, or even their children.

No.

It's to be spent on a continent wide project to help children. Ok, well, its for the children. But...no.

This money won't be spent directly on children, but will instead be channeled though the most corrupt and inefficient set of governments on the PLANET.

Take for example, Zimbabwe. Once the breadbasket of africa, its now a basket case. Life expectancy has almost halved and the economy is in a nosedive. Or take Sudan, and the little genocide that's been continuing with tacit govenment support for...years.

And they want to take more money from the tax payer to channel it to these regimes, when the NHS is in a shambolic state. Atlest if we gave the money to the NHS we could track where it goes - unlike the black hole of africa.

Thats one reason to dislike a charity. I can think of more...