James Silverton wrote:
>
> 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 :-(

It's no hobby, these folks make entire careers out of leaching off of
charity. Each of those organizations employs a lot of such leaches who
would otherwise need to find a real job (or another scam).