@boonon said"How and how much can I help my community?" is the exact right question.
What is more valuable to someone in need? Time, or money? That is probably a good debate topic.
General need or dire need? Bring this up somewhere. I would be interested in that thread.
And I have been in these forums long enough to know that "blowing my own horn", as it were, gets me nothing but down thumbs.
@AverageJoe1 said"Rich live, poor die" is hardly a "good" strategy.
Contrare’. His grand strategy is to create a new economic and political international order. In his world, individual nations would have sovereign autonomy, but must follow rules, such as free and fair international trade if they want good relations with the US.
A grand goal, indeed. And as I have mentioned before, these things take time, marauder thought it should ...[text shortened]... . While we are all throwing darts at the pub, he is thinking real hard about all this. Go, Donald.
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@Suzianne saidUnderstood.
"How and how much can I help my community?" is the exact right question.
And I have been in these forums long enough to know that "blowing my own horn", as it were, gets me nothing but down thumbs.
I give money when I can.
United way, Haiti and some other causes.
I give time every week. This time is done locally. My local homeless, local people in need. I could tell you more but the trolls here like you said would find some fault.
I guess my point on the matter is that I believe we need more people helping people, not government.
I appreciate what you do to help people in need.
@boonon saidBut the local government is a crucial step.
Understood.
I give money when I can.
United way, Haiti and some other causes.
I give time every week. This time is done locally. My local homeless, local people in need. I could tell you more but the trolls here like you said would find some fault.
I guess my point on the matter is that I believe we need more people helping people, not government.
I appreciate what you do to help people in need.
I have successfully lobbied state reps and senators and mayors to get more shelters built and even helped start a program to get homeless off the streets and into actual housing. Cutting a slice of a politician's time to discuss these things is like pulling teeth. It's slow and thankless, but every homeless person or family off the streets is a win. I know quite a few cops who cruise the downtown areas and I count on them to help protect many from robberies and other crimes against this vulnerable population. I met many of them as I was patrolling the homeless camps with a flashlight at night, just checking up on these people.
I've bothered enough of my friends to volunteer at food kitchens downtown and the shelters also appreciate people to come and even just to help clean up is appreciated. Every little bit helps tremendously.
I hate to say 'I told you so', especially about such a serious issue, but this is the way this is gonna go.
Bill Gates says Elon Musk's DOGE is 'killing' poor children
"The Microsoft co-founder holds Musk accountable for potentially millions of preventable deaths"
By
Niamh Rowe
Published Yesterday
Bill Gates is holding Elon Musk responsible for the preventable deaths of the world’s poorest children, as a result of his cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget.
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Microsoft’s (MSFT) billionaire co-founder told the Financial Times on Thursday.
In February the Trump administration kicked off sweeping cuts to foreign aid, overseen by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,” Musk wrote on X as the dismantling began.
The government eliminated more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) overseas aid contracts and cut $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world. Simultaneously, Trump officials eradicated all 1,600 USAID jobs based within the U.S. and put the agency’s 4,700 overseas workers on leave.
Due to the USAID cuts, “the number of deaths will start going up for the first time ... it’s going to be millions more deaths because of the resources,” Gates told Reuters.
It’s thought that freezing and discontinuing funding to the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) since January 24, may have already led to more than 4,800 child deaths.
Meanwhile, USAID memos estimate that an additional 200,000 children will be paralyzed with polio annually, and one million children will go untreated for severe acute malnutrition, as a result of the cuts.
On Thursday, Gates also announced that The Gates Foundation will close in 2045, decades earlier than previously thought. However, the foundation will hasten its charitable efforts, spending more than $200 billion on global health, development, and education over the next two decades, double what the foundation has pledged throughout the previous 25 years.
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I also want to stress that Elon Musk would not have been in a position to oversee the deaths of so many had not Donald Trump put him in charge of this.
Literally millions will die worldwide because of this one senseless act.
And we thought Hitler was bad.
@Suzianne saidWelfare to the world is not the our government's responsibility. It is the world's responsibility. If you want to save lives don't support our government invading other countries.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rubio-musk-foreign-aid-millions-dead-1235321188/
"Count the Dead by the Millions"
A new study projects Trump cuts to global health aid would kill millions; abortions would also soar
By Tim Dickinson - April 19, 2025
A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment ...[text shortened]... w.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rubio-musk-foreign-aid-millions-dead-1235321188/
@Metal-Brain saidIt IS our responsibility. As the largest economy on planet earth, it IS our responsibility. We ARE our brother's keeper.
Welfare to the world is not the our government's responsibility. It is the world's responsibility. If you want to save lives don't support our government invading other countries.
And I wish you would learn the meaning of the word 'invasion'.
@Metal-Brain saidOnly in THIS country.
That is what happens when you support invading other countries.
Poor people die so rich people can get richer.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-avoided-the-military-draft-which-was-common-at-the-time-vietnam-war-2018-12
Thank Donald Trump.