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Originally Posted by bamscram
Got any links to back this claim up?
More and more are telling to donate to the RC, and all I can find on line is 85% goes to relief .what is a good way to see they get the money?Thought JJ Watt did a good job.
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Do some searches on the internet regarding those disasters. Their shabby history goes back to the close of WWII. It's even worse overseas. The horrendous fraud from 911 resulted in litigation and it's been the same since. That's all on the internet.
The Katrina RC b.s. was absolutely ridiculous. They were claiming they set up the astrodome and the brown building as "shelters" .... absolute bullshit! They had one little table off to the side at the astrodome .. .and nothing at Brown. In Houston 99% of the effort was church based .... from shelter, clothing, AND FOOD ... with volunteers ... the county judge and mayor facilitated it by "cutting red tape" but it was church based. The RC gathered money, but didn't do shit!
My educated guess is "Mattress Mac" in Houston has done more than the RC for the Harvey victims ... and still is going! He turned his furniture store into a shelter ... and housed National Guardsmen ... a place to clean up and sleep ... with food brought in from volunteers ... We've shared lights, batteries, electricity, gas cans, and kept an idea on first responders' houses while they were "trapped" in other parts of town and couldn't get back home and looked after pets and children whose parents were unavailable or delayed.
Same with Katrina. Same with Ike!
That's what they were doing down here .... not RC.
There weren't any RC folks helping with shit in the way of evacs. They've been huddled in a $200-300 a night hotel ... while people are being herded into cots.... if they're lucky.
It's hardly worth discussing ... won't do any good. 85% of the money? Hogwash ... let them open up the books and produce receipts! A $7,500 a month room at a hotel per RC staff member plus meals is where the shit goes ..... I know folks crowded into 3 bedroom houses with family members (young kids) camping on the floors ... trying to figure out how to get to school when the family cars are gone .... I see them walking down the road!! No bus service ... no school bus to their schools ... out of their district ... I mean the shit is endless ... while RC rakes in the dough over their grief.
You don't send money ... used clothing, whatever. (I wear "used" clothing the day after I've worn it the first time!) We were lucky around where I live .. the water stopped about a 1/2 block away ... one block ... 6-8 feet of water in houses ... then the Corps of Army Engineers cut lose water on others in another part of town ... they got flooded out ... where's the RC? In their fancy hotel digs.
