Re: It's happening in my home town
- From: "J.C." <jcsplace@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:11:56 GMT
"v" <vze8f3tq@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:03:20 GMT, someone wrote:
>
>>They say it's going to be on ABC sometime in the next two months. It's
>>great
>>to see this happen to people that really, really need it.... And people up
>>in
>>Houston are contributing money and a large furniture st
>>
> Am I the only one who has reservations about this whole concept?
> There are lots of unfortunate cases in a nation of 300 million people.
> A handful of photogenic ones get picked out to in effect win the
> lottery. In many cases a new house has little to do with their
> underlying problem anyway.
>
> It would help 'society' more to contribute the same amount of $ to
> leukemia research. It would help the family just fine to give them
> money. Or send the kids on holiday. Or provide respite care so the
> parents can get a break. But it wouldn't give the photo ops for the
> advertisers (errr, I mean, 'donors').
>
> Then after the kids die, the family is left with this huge house that
> the kids' illness bought them? That creeps ME out.
>
> There are lots of people in New Orleans who need new homes. Coulda
> helped 4 poor families by building the same sq footage as 4 small
> houses....
>
Maybe you could start a movement to help those that you are concerned about
like we here did about this family. Ours is a very close knit little town
and this is no where near what we have been doing regarding this family.
But, this is one of OUR families. You don't have to pitch in if you choose
not to. As for the size of the house. That's what this company builds and
out of the kindness of their heart they decided to DONATE one. I've been on
this earth for 62 years and I still can not comprehend why some people must
be negative about good things.
I don't like negativism on my computer so please understand this PLONK.
.
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