On 10/29/2014 9:46 AM, sf wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:24:13 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Charities keep going, even when their reason for being no longer exists.
>>> Here are three prime examples:
>>>
>>> When my parents were kids, there was
>>>
>>> Christmas Seals -- to fight tuberculosis
>>> The March of Dimes -- to fight polio
>>> Easter Seals -- to help crippled kids
>>>
>>> TB was cured, but Christmas Seals kept going, orienting its mission to
>>> general lung ailments.
>>> Polio was cured, but the March of Dimes kept going, changing its mission
>>> to have something to do with birth defects.
>>> Kids stopped getting crippled (same thing happened to the Shriners
>>> Hospitals) but Easter Seals kept going, changing its mission to have
>>> something to do with disabled children, especially autistic kids.
>>
>> Actually, TB is back. Perhaps not so much in this country but it is here.
>
> TB never went away. What's back is all the childhood diseases,
> including whooping cough, thanks to stupid parents who don't vaccinate
> their children.
> http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/images/...ph-2014-lg.jpg
>
>
The Christmas Seals, March of Dimes and Easter Seals are rated B, B- and
C- by Charities Watch. That means to me that I might possibly support
the Christmas Seals and the March of Dimes but not Easter Seals. I
suppose it's hard to stop a full time hobby of raising money :-(

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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