Donations/contributions - questions.

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by wetibbe

Lesson to be learned. When you donate, or contribute, for these causes keep in mind that you have essentially gifted it and you do not have any control, voice or power to say, or require, how it is dispositioned or spent. There is no practical recourse. It's just GONE !

I should have added here that there are certainly good entities that are worthy of your support. Politicians are always a debatable case, but we've seen there are decent ones alive out there. It's getting harder for economic piss ants like the general public to influence the candidate landscape out there with donations due to the volumes of support coming from corporate giants, unions, and other large forces. But that's generally for the bigger races like president, large constituent Senate, Governor and some congressional. We can still make an impact on local and smaller constituency statewide or congressional races, and it would not benefit us to abandon supporting the good candidates. Just do the research first, and then also get involved with the campaigns. You learn a lot more by the way their campaigns are managed if you are in the bullpen somehow, even if it's waterboy.