Well, this is a surprise;
During Isaac, Red Cross supervisors ordered dozens of trucks usually deployed to deliver aid to be driven around nearly empty instead, “just to be seen,” one of the drivers, Jim Dunham, recalls.
“We were sent way down on the Gulf with nothing to give,” Dunham says. The Red Cross’ relief effort was “worse than the storm.”
During Sandy, emergency vehicles were taken away from relief work and assigned to serve as backdrops for press conferences, angering disaster responders on the ground.
I’d have thought they’d be busy training looters.
It’s all about fundraising. Executive wages have to come from somewhere. Historically the Red Cross/Red Heathen have been amongst the best.
Corrupt. Along with Doctors without Borders.
Same kind of crap during 2013 southern Alberta floods. The Red Cross had to be shamed into distributing the millions raised. Even now as High Riverites still aren’t in homes or businesses will never open again the Red Cross sits on the donations and tells everybody how wonderful they are. Never a penny to them again.
Perhap one question is:
Was the backdrop of red cross trucks asked for by the cabal that runs the White House to show how much the current occupant cares?
The question does sound coarse, though from experience, it is not at all out of bounds to be asked.
The current administration as a whole is a pack of liers as much as individuals in it.
The Red Cross told a lady who had been burned out of her home in California to buzz off because they figured, accurately, that she was wealthy, but she was wearing bedclothes or something, she couldn’t even save her wallet.
Then they used her picture with the fires as a backdrop for fundraising.
Well that lady being a California Supreme Court judge of some kind did not take too kindly to having her picture used and she then hammered the Red Cross in Court, revealing among other things that the local director of the Red Cross was making over $400,000 a year.
I searched to find a link to that story but I think it disappeared down the memory hole of the interwebs.
We had a huge apartment fire here in Calgary. I called the Red Cross because I had a lot of excellent bedding and towels to donate. They said money only so that was the end of that. Do not donate to them and sure never will.
Holy mackerel! If they just wanted some publicity, think of all the coin they could have saved if they’d just dug up Sean Penn and filmed him behind the wheel of a Red Cross truck. Cripes, he might have even done it for less than the cost of a turdo la doo speaking engagement.
“Did you know it takes a Victoria’s Secret model five hours to unload one box off a truck?”
That’s what I call poor crowd control.
Nice to know….scratch them off my list and apply it to the vacation fund.
Agree with you, andy. I was down volunteering for the High River flood clean up. At the volunteer assembly area there was a huge quonset hut used by a variety of volunter organizations/helpers for storing supplies. Our ad hoc volunteer team needed some to help one of the flooded/displaced homeowners. The RC had a pile of stuff. We were willing to give the RC our driver’s licenses, credit card info, whatever the guy wanted so we could use some of the supplies — no dice. They were “allocated”. When I returned the following weekend the stuff was still in the same place unused. I’d bought some of my own tools and gear in the meantime so didn’t even bother with the useless jerks.
Jeffrey Sachs, who said he wanted to end world poverty, devised a plan for global fundraising. It’s linked, of course, to the U.N.
“He stopped being an academic a long time ago and became a propagandist for aid.”
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/24/does_it_take_a_village
I’d like to know where all the money goes, because it’s not being spent on legitimate need.
I looked in vain for a video of the Victoria’s Secret model unloading a truck. I mean, how can one offer them suggestions on improving their technique, if one can’t determine how they are doing it at present?
Me too, not a V S model in sight. 🙁 I’ve heard the stories of Red Cross incompetence for years now. They are now as useful as the United Nations.
The men who returned after WWII always said “don’t donate to the Red Cross”, but always said: “Donate to the Salvation Army.”
and all the V S model had to do was jump off the truck:-)))