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Originally Posted by MMM
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The Red Cross cannot "invoice" the Japanese government. You would be as up in arms as anyone if an organization, charitable or not, came into a country, spent millions or billions doing anything, and then gave the government a bill they were expected to pay without a contract.
I think my indulgence in this silliness has reached its end.
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Is the American Red Cross worthy of our donations?
By Allan Chernoff, CNN senior correspondentFebruary 2, 2010
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)
In regards to the Red Cross and it's performance in the US a ( country ).
Wrong MMM, in the case of the charity relief work in the US - in the wake of both the Sept. 11, 2001, and Katrina flooding , New Orleans and especially Haiti Earthquake relief efforts the Red Cross was caught trying to divert donations to the Red Cross Liberty Disaster Fund for other purposes*,again
Red Cross was blamed for poor coordination of relief efforts in the aftermath of Katrina.
Local Red Cross chapters have been victims of embezzlement. And two years ago the Red Cross had to turn to Congress for a $100 million infusion after its emergency response fund was depleted. (The Red Cross has a Congressional charter and counts the president of the United States as its honorary chairman.)