When I was in the service many, many years ago, I saw a jar on the desk of a Sergent in the in the company office. It was labeled Give to the Children of Israel. The Sergent's name was John Israel.
That was my first awareness that all charity is not really what you think. Some one somewhere has a hand in the cookie jar. Not always a bad thing, ie the jobs in the salvation army store ect. But sometimes ten cents on the dollar actually gets to the intended people. That is not a good thing.
That's kind of like taxes I think. Give it to us and we will give it back to you, but only after we take a chunk out of course. We pay for good things like soldiers and their equipment, roads and the like. But a whole lot of the money doesn't get to what we thought we were paying for. Ie the children of Israel charity kind of thing.
That was my first awareness that all charity is not really what you think. Some one somewhere has a hand in the cookie jar. Not always a bad thing, ie the jobs in the salvation army store ect. But sometimes ten cents on the dollar actually gets to the intended people. That is not a good thing.
That's kind of like taxes I think. Give it to us and we will give it back to you, but only after we take a chunk out of course. We pay for good things like soldiers and their equipment, roads and the like. But a whole lot of the money doesn't get to what we thought we were paying for. Ie the children of Israel charity kind of thing.