ask all those democrats that are in power in Detroit to fulfill the promise…ha, its a shame but decades of dem leadership has created this travesty.

So, the ones that haven’t been robbed yet are silent?

People give what they can give at any given time. Stop setting stupid unobtainable goals during a recession.

The Salvationists only pass on $0.85 of every dollar? That’s not that good, unless you’re a member of the Salvationist church.

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Well, like they say, “It’s so cold in th’ D”……

Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of socialists. Enjoy the hopey changey!

You are correct! Every state that is run by democrats are hell holes.

Oh God, “income inequality” with stats from Mother Jones – LMAO. Yeah that’s it, it has nothing to do with the failed socialist and corrupt Democrat leaders for the past 40 years in Detroit.

The real question is, how many more U.S. cities do we have to lose because of liberal policy before the people start voting the Democrats out.

The Salvation Army was and is still as far as I know a Christian charity. You can therefore assume that the direction of our national political rhetoric will provide less and less support for such organizations. They will evaporate into that better part of America’s history. Those bell ringing jobs might become government jobs for affirmative action hires. Tax supported of course. And if the government charity bussiness fails to support itself it’ll be just fine. We won’t be able to kill that government charity because of the job loses it will generate. Good bye America, where did you go?

How much money does thee SA get from City, Country, and State Funds ?
The Red Kettle Campaign represents 6 per cent of the totlal spending of SA.

‘Twas Detroit in December,
Foreclosed on a house,
As I strained to remember,
Kilpatrick and spouse…

But I thought Obama was going to pay my bills? I thought Obama was going to put gas in my car. I was told everything would be wonderful if I just voted for Obama.

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I’m amazed how few people realize the Salvation Army is a church. People who would never support a church other than their own see it as a charity only. They are spin masters. I can help the needy directly with NO overhead at all.

It’s hard for people to donate when Obama and the democrats have created an economic policy to oppress everyone from the top down from being successful because they feel that the United States should be as poor as every other country. That is the redistribution of wealth, take from middle class through high taxation and redistribute it to failed stimulus projects, careless spending measures and giving it to the rest of the world so we all suffer together and nobody can help anyone, which in turn increases government dependency. If you’re poor, struggling or out of a job, thank a democrat while they hit the back nine, drive limousines and fly on private jets all on the taxpayers dime by spending the nations future into oblivion while they live a life of luxury and then turn around and blame economic problems on anyone but themselves, .

Democrat elites get rich, the poor stay poor. Trickle down is govt money.
Detroit is a corrput town that is broke. Its the leaders – the elites- who rob and pillage the populace.
And then they have the temerity to blame rich-republicans

Yes You CAN thank the Obama regime and Democrats for this and many other American maladies. No more Democrats. No more unions. no more lawyers. fix America now.

Are they kidding themselves, Detroit is a majority black city! Detroit citizens don’t give anything to anybody, they want and receive all they can from anybody else!

Detroit is floundering in failed Democrat politicians graft, corruption, failed policies, and just about every other thing that could make Detroit go wrong and your getting your data from MotherJones.
I suppose it’s typical, blame everyone else except where the blame truly lies.

No he means the 60 years of total Democrat control over Detroit including greedy unions, high taxes, crime, corruption that has driven away responsible people. Detroit is another Democrat leftist blight like camden NJ, Philly, East St Louis and the list goes on and on.

People voted for hope & change hell and got it. The “facts’ are that under Bush, unemployment was around 5%. I don’t even like Bush much but he is light years better than what we have.

Funny how the bulk of donations go to Goodwill instead of Salvation Army. When in fact Goodwill does absolutely nothing to shelter the homeless feed the hungry or cloth the naked. Salvation Army is one of the only ones left that do all that and more. Goodwill Corporation is big business with over paid execs and is a scam on the “Goodwill” of the American public. If you don’t believe me go to any Goodwill location and tell them you are hungry and have no cloths and see how far you get. Supposedly they are suppose to help people develop vocational skills and get employment , Go tell them your out of work and need a job and see where that gets you too.

Shouldn’t Detroit close?

Hey moron check out how much is spent by other “charities” 85% is at the top! Geeesh some people shouldn’t vote.

You hit the nail on the head!

I say f*ck em’ i could care less. if they’d quit aspiring to be rappers and to join the NBA and actually get an education and a career they wouldn’t need charity.

Whats wrong with helping the poor. Just follow the link in the article and help some poor kids and their mothers eat a meal for Christmas.
Why does it have to be political?
Oh yeah, cause you don’t want to help someone that is not in your church or state..

Good, hope you sleep well,
Mike

May Detroit can further tap the OBAMA STASH those welfare women mentioned several years ago on a CNN segment

Merry Christmas waxa. I hope you don’t encounter yourself when you are down and out.

Mike

Maybe if they were more careful about who they let “accept” donations at the kettle they might be more successful. I’m not giving when I don’t know if the donation will actually reach the Salvation Army. Quit using thugs to ring bells! Or pay the price (as exemplified in this story).

> Every state that is run by democrats are hell holes<
Including Mexifornia! which is now $2 billion more in the hole thanks to the Democrat Stooges!

Takers don’t give

Interesting how the cities that are led by Democratic mayors and City Councils are all going down the toilet. Watch Detroit implode followed by Cleveland, Bufffal, Los Angeles, etc. Now there’s no more bailout money to help delay this inevitability. The inner cities are about to burn and it’s going to be the residents starting the fires..figuratively and literally. Our society is going to collapse. Of course, it’ll be the rich white man’s fault, right?

Mike it’s one thing to need a little help but these people have needed help since they were freed. Remember President Johnson’s war on poverty almost 50 years ago and still going strong? We have given them every handout conceivable: food, housing, medical care, affirmative action even cell phones and they are as worse off as ever. Every child in this country has access to a free K-12 eductation valued at approx. 150-200K. how many take advantage of it versus being there to get a free lunch, make trouble, and knock up some female out of wedlock before dropping out and living off the taxpayers? I have no sympathy at all, they have done it to themselves. They are to blame for the position they occupy not racism, bad luck etc…just excuses to justify their failures and continual need for support.

Let’s not forget that they have thrift stores all over the US filled with merchandise that people donate. I won’t put money into the red kettles – to me that’s just begging. Also, ever drive by the head honco of your local SA and see what kind of house they live in and what kind of car they drive? Better than what I have.

Let’s cut all Foreign Aid to Pakistan and Iraq, and send it to placese like Detroit. If we have to give aid, why not to Americans at home, then those Iraqi’s who burning US flags. To hell with Iraq and Pakistan!

I can’t speak for Detroit, but in another similar major city, with a similar goal, the kettles are a major portion of our budget each year and GOVERNMENT funding makes up less than 12% of our total budget in our urban area (with much less of a percentage in the suburban and rural areas). The government funding is also for very specific purposes such as housing the homeless and food subsidies – not allowed to be spent on just anything. Donations, individual, corporate and private foundation, make up approximately 70% of our budget – with most coming from smaller donations (mailed in or kettles). So, the kettles are EXTREMELY important. And, vulnerable to the bad economy when most people who usually have a buck or two to spare, don’t even have that unfortunately.

Heh Miracle Mike! Drive by the SA church and just look at all the nice cars that drive up just to get a free meal. Sit and watch the people who come and get food and are living high on the hog with food stamps – paid for by us taxpayers. I sleep well at night knowing that I am taxed and someone else gets my money. Your guilt tripping is laughable. I and millions of Americans have given enough – the welfare mucks are laughing all the way to the store. Get a grip dude.

The rest of Michigan is tired of funding Detroit, we are keep our cash and spending it locally, that is all of us that are still living here. Some of us have investments we just can’t pickup and move. Detroit is like the 300lb tumor we can’t remove. The federal stash is gone, the state stash is gone, the county stash is gone, the city stash is gone. Well I guess its time for the big D residents to move to Texas or Florida, maybe then we can lower our taxes and get some business back here.

I wouldn’t give a dime to any charity in Detroit. It is over run with Muslims and I don’t want a dime of my money to support any Muslim.

Blacks dont give,,,,,,,,,,,,they only take! No surprise here.

Just yesterday I passed by another red kettle, no cash on my person or in an account to give. In 2008, right after Obama was elected, my husband and I regularly passed kettles, placing $20 in without a second thought.

Now $20 is half of our essential groceries for three days. We simply cannot afford it; we can barely support ourselves.

@Edward, you are a cool-aid drinker. Detroit’s unions (and that includes the public sector unions) have destroyed the city. The chart you reference is not adjusted for inflation. Much of the bottom 20% are parasites and moochers – they survive off of other people’s wages. They provide not productive value to society. Of the 1%, several thousand are professional athletes and sports people (Baseball – $3.4m, basketball $3.1m, football $1.7m), music and film stars. I haven’t heard any of you leftists demanding their salaries be cut.

Such unkindness in these comments! Do you people pray to God with these thoughts in your minds? Can’t you have kind wishes for your fellow human beings for at least two weeks out of the year? Jesus said to love your brother, not to judge him or despise him.

Time to move. There are jobs in Texas.

Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Three years of Obama – the VERY BEST the Democrats have ever had to offer – has given us:

- $15 trillion deficit
- 100% Debt to GDP
- US in a depression
- ruined economy
- US credit rating downgraded
- 20% real unemployment

- ignores the War Powers Act
- gas/food/clothing prices skyrocketing
- 5 wars, one with a record death toll
- foreign policy disasters

- raiding the public pension fund to avoid the debt ceiling

- lost 800+ seats for his own party
- Sends American troops to support the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa

- poll numbers in the toilet

- 45 million Americans on food stamps
- Over half the states suing to get out of Obamacare

- 1 in 4 mortgages under water

- ATF gunrunning scandal unfolding
- Solyndra scandal unfolding
ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!

I was just denied tons of charitable deductions by the IRS because they were made in cash and I did not have a receipt for every single one of them. In the past I would emply my change into the red pots but no more. Ask the IRS for money. I’m not giving anyone anything in cash again.

This is an example of “compassionate conservatism”, I hope you enjoy it. Since MI turned toward republican state government they are only getting what they asked for. Since I live in Texas I know how it is.

I don’t pray to god.

Sigh, anyone think that out of wedlock children, quitting school and doing drugs has anything to do with income inequality? Sigh again

You could not give a city like Detroit enough money. For every dollar you generously give, 1 dollar will be scammed and skilmmed before it gets to the needy. Its too bad. Detroit had everything going for it before NAFTA, Unions and general corruption killed it. First thing D-Town has got to do is get out the vote for Ron Paul and lobby to reverse unfair trade treaties.

Michigan you voted for Obama….Now live with it !!!!!!

It is hopeless. We have worked down here in my homeland. When I was born 65 years ago we had no such thing as a poverty index and our community, MvcAllen, Texas, had no poverty. Certainly no abject poverty. Now, we have 25 year old grandmothers (50+ in a county of 750,000). We have 200 pound 2nd graders….by the hundreds. We have 300 pound 7th graders…by the hundreds. We have 70% of the population receiving Lone Star Card benefirs (food stampls in Texas), section 8 or public housing, WIC, Head Start, free school breakfast, lunch and summer brewakfast and lunch, electricity subsidy, AFDC.
It is something like a scene from Planet of the Apes mixed with scenes from “Attack of the Obese Zombies Who Ate Tokyo”.

Until we have drug testing, picture and fingerpirnt ID, and spaying and neutering of anyone who produces a 2nd miracle baby…and the castration of the “miracle father”….then and only then will we resume helping as bell-ringers and the like. It’s hopeless….overrun by wharf rat….400 pound, pregnant wharf rats.

How’s that hope and change working out for you insane dumb azzes that voted Marxism. Let your union sissy’s take care of your worthless azz! FREEZE!

Let their Obama come to their aid in Detroit. It is Obama that is the worst thing to happen to this naton since the Great Depression. He is the guilty one. He is the sinful one. He is the one who is league with the devil, not us.

I thought they turned the lights out in Detroit?

Very misleading chart, or should I say skewed. If you look at the makeup of the top 1%, of which their aren’t that many people, you will observe that they are not all corporate titans. Many are entrepreneurs, and many more are actors and athletes. The pay scale for the latter has grown exponentially in the past couple of decades with little fanfare from the media.

Wow nice to hear someone telling it like it is!

Ha ha Edward your ideology just got pwned!

Always sad to see an ignorant comment from a person looking for any excuse not to help their fellow man. Probably the same kind of person who complains to the store manager about those “annoying bells”. Merry Christmas Jaye!

Money from Thrift Stores fund the Adult Rehab Centers of The Salvation Army, just one isolated, but very important program. Other programs like fighting Human Trafficking, shelters for women and children, money to buy food from food pantries (yes, they don’t get the food for free), utilities, staff, etc. comes from other funding sources like kettles.

Salvation Army officers make $16K starting salary and the national CEO makes $54,000. They stay in a parsonage, owned by The Salvation Army, which they move in and out of about every 3-5 years as they get orders to transfer posts, just like in the US Army. These houses have to have at least four bedrooms because some families have multiple kids. Unlike you Jaye, they’re not building up equity for themselves, so cut them some slack, eh?

NAFTA is not the problem. Unions and estrogen poisoned auto company management. That was the problem. In three years, GM and Chrysler will go belyy up again.

Unions.and Red China. Canada and Mexico put together have one-ninth the population of Red China and yet their combined GNP is equivalent. We do not have a free trade agreement with Red China and yet we have tons of heir useless junk that breaks or wears out on the third use sitting on our shelves everywhere. The Red Chinese Poobahs see us and our children as organ donors for the elite of Communist governing group.

The saw about moving auto jobs to Mexico because they have no unions and are paid 5 dollars a dayt is a lie. All auto workers in Mexico are in a union. The old unions were as corrupt as the UAW. Now, the unions have to compete for membership and work in a teamwork pattern. The average Volkswagen or Ford worker in Mexico makes about 100 dollars per day, including company contributions to the housing fund, social security medical and profit sharing clauses, It just doesn’t make sense to pay some fat dolt 63 dollars an hour to bolt bumpers on a crummy Impala…or a Chrysler 300 that looks great but really is crummy and shabby. Better a Texas non-union Toyota pickup…it works amd ;oves amd tje employerrs are not fat, stupid, narcissistic whiners.

The governor of Michigan acts like she’s pulled off some sort of economic miarcle- well, even a newborn baby knows how to suck a tit. I wouldn’t give the people of Detroit warm **** if they held a golden bucket under my *** to collect it in. Freeze, starve and die.

Lets tell it like it is…. If MI had not embraced failing Democratic policies one after another and yet continued to put the same people back into power, then it is possible, nay probable, that they would not be in the situation they are now.

Stop all charitable donations now! why? because your government is coming for you. They are coming for your money, they are coming to touch your private parts, they are coming to look in your car during “safety” checks”, they are coming to take your children away, they are coming to take Christanity away, they will tax and regulate you into slavery if you are a producer and they enslave the poor with a few food stamps and the promise of hope. Take care of your family friends and neighbors but don’t drop money into a black hole bucket.

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So, how is that democrat War on Poverty doing after 50+ years???

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Why don’t you just move to Illinois, then you can have license plates made by your former Governors.

I’d give you all new cars but you already have one. Never have I said this but you need to get rid of the Unions or you will starve. I will say a word for you on the passing. On second thought maybe I could start a re-education camp to send all the commies to.

I’m not a fan of the Salvation Army, but the ONE thing I do know about them is that if you want a job that pays alot of money, don’t be a Salvation Army officer. The leadership, the officers get paid very little. The only advantage is they get to live in a home owned by the SA. So despite what Jaye Southworth posted, the head honcho’s of the local SA live very meagerly. They don’t own the houses they live in NOR the cars they drive in.

This is a very sad story but the harsh reality is that I suspect that their are many people like myself who normally donate at least $50 a year in my area who simply cannot afford to do it this year. If you’re out of work or just barely getting by, as is the case for millions and millions right now you can;t really do much no matter how large the need is. Maybe Americans should ask the President to do a fundraiser to aid these people. He seems pretty good at raising money for himself.

Those that don’t spit out one of their off spring kill it. I don’t think they know the same Lord I do, he’s against murder

Unions destroy everything they touch and the democratic party takes care of what’s left. Detroit is the poster child for the failed nanny state

Absolutely !

On the face of it, my comments may sound racist, but I only ponder some observations, Every major population center with a significant Black population will have rampant crime, high levels of illegitimacy,wanton poverty, blight and filth, hopelessness. drugs. local government that is either corrupt or inept, or both. But we all know it;s whitey’s fault or the Republicans.

Amen! Ask him for some of the $1 billion to help pay your bill.. Or sell you’r children’s boy parts on Ebay for some extra cash. Your misery warms me like a large soft blanket.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

You absolutely can not be a Christian and a democrat at the same time. You can not be a Christian and follow one who says this is a muzzie nation. You can not be a Christian and follow any one who voted to off the baby if the abortion was botched. Best you get on you MI prayer rugs and pray to the devil, he might hear you however you should use a teleprompter since it seems to work on getting the insane to listen. Where’s you leader? Golfing???

It’s laughable isn’t it? They don’t know it yet but the race card went out with the Nauru Shirts.

There are lots of charities that do better than 90%. BTW, your name-calling only reflects badly on you.

Amen !

The people having jobs are simply tapped out supporting too many who have made poverty a career choice.

Out of wedlock births, rap culture, drugs, alcohol, gluttony, blaming others when their expected entitlements aren’t enough after spending on hair extensions, manicures, trips to the Mall for new clothes, shoes, and jewelry.

It was bound to happen. Now the chickens are coming home to roost, or is that only in Jeremiah Wright’s mind?

Get out of there and make a life around people who don’t depend on everyone else to eat!

The left would then lose their voting base !, would never happen but should immediately. How “people” can align themselves and vote with the takers in this world is amazing !.

They should thank the democrats for destroying the economy,

I donate an average of $15,000 per year in federal income tax. Done.

amen and Jesus is Lord!!!

TAKE A GOOD LOOK AMERICA, DETROIT IS OUR FUTURE, AND I AM SORRY I HAVE NO PITTY FOR THESE CITIES THAT HAVE BEEN ELECTING DEMOCRATS FOR 50, 60, 70+ YEARS, YOU MADE YOUR CITY WHAT IT IS, A TOILET!!!

Ever since the Salvation Army pulled the Santa costumes off the people manning those kettles, I have not had an impulse to give. In fact, in NYC, the kettles are manned by the most slobbish, deadbeat people I have seen. They sit there, reading the paper or napping ringing an annoying bell in their hand as if to say “just put the damned money in the kettle and dont bother me.” At least with the Santa costume, it evoked some Christmas spirit (has the ACLU stopped us from saying Christmas spirit too?) and the giving that is part of the holiday.

Nice job ACLU, Salvation Army cant get donations because you think Santa Clause is a religious symbol. Apparently, he is an economic one as well.

Salvation Army — maybe you should do some surprise checks on your people. They may be some of the reason why those kettles are empty.

It’s Detroit. They don’t give. They take.

The last time all of your Michiganders moved to Texas was in the 1980′s. Most of you moved back because you discovered there is no free lunch here….you need to work for a living. There is no welfare.

Most of you moved back. Don’t come to Texas, unless you want to work.These are not high paying jobs ($10/hr) but if you work hard you will soon be making a pretty good living with low taxes.

Jesus also said if you don’t work, you don’t eat.

Progressive Liberal governance ALWAYS PROGRESSES into squalor, poverty, joblessness, crime and zero hope.

Reagan created 21 million new jobs.

Obama has lost 6 million existing jobs.

Who’s for “progress”?

IF YOU CANT FEED THEM, DONT BREED THEM. All them hoochie mommas having 15 kids and living off welfare, well its gonna end someday, and someday is soon.

Call Obama, he will help.

Hope & Change Depression under Barack Hussein Obama…

I guess all the taxpayer dollars we are giving these losers isn’t enough…can’t afford crack and Christmas…What a shame all the fatherless babies won’t have as good a Christmas as the people who actually work for a living!

GET USED TO IT: DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP LED DETROIT TO THIS SITUATION, AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP WILL LEAD THE ENTIRE COUNTRY THERE WITH BHO IN CONTROL.

absolutely right on!

Mr. Forrest Gump.

Detroit Democrats have been running the city into the ground, destroying it for nearly 40 years, and the remaining citizens are a product of the cities liberal “black” sub-culture.

The situation in Detroit is NOT going to get better in our lifetime so long as Democrats remain in power politically in Detroit and Michigan. There really isn’t anyone remaining in Detroit to drop a few bucks in the Red Christmas Kettles of the Salvation Army.

The Salvation Army is the finest non-profit organization in the world and the people who work there full time and as volunteers are the very best people. The people of Detroit have made their own beds. Either they change their politics and behavior or the situation is going to continue to devolve.

Well said Frank! Sadly giving will be down due to those who would normally give generously seeing those typically in need, being subsidized by our (mainly democrat,) class warfare politicians.

Looks like “Edward” got owned! What kind of moonbat liberal uses a Motherjones link? Hell I may as well start using NewsMax links on you idiot liberals!

The Salvation Army Church has over $7 Billion of the most beautiful properties in the USA donated for the poor & homeless & they refuse to let the homeless anywhere near them, unless they are cleaning them, mowing the yards, or maintaining them….

I would never give to that church that keeps people poor & homeless while their head-honchos live like Kings.

Hey Miracle Mike….I noticed you said “help the poor kids and their mothers.” Where the hell are their Fathers? I’m sick of these people (black and white) popping out kids and expecting everyone else to pay for them!

It’s NOT an ignorant comment, it’s reality. I no longer donate to the big charities due to once I was down and out and because I was a “young white male” I was refused help. Not even a propane refill for heat or food. Yet the entitlement crowd gets it all…. The sales of donated goods also irks me…. they want donations converted to cash…not simply given to those truly in need. I wish I could find the article from about 5 years ago on the CEO of Salvation army, I remember the figure being MUCH higher than 54k. That article may have only recently caused that pay drop.

It is tougher times out there, Individuals just have to help out others the best they can. We are all in this together

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the nation is on edge of death due to democrats.
If you put money in the kettle it goes to democrats.
WHO WANTS TO GIVE ANYTHING ELSE TO DEMOCRATS?
I could spare thirty bullets each, but no money!

Obama will make all of America look like one big Detroit, since it’s not fair for Detroit right now.

Only when all of America is equally destitute and miserable will we have true equality of outcome.

OBAMA 2012
Death To Amerikkka!

Heck….We’re tapped out. Barely even having a Christmas at out house. No one volunteering to help us out…..

What? The all American Muslims aren’t filling the pots?

I live in Washington state. OUr bell ringers open doors for us, sing, wish us a Merry Christmas, etc. It wouldn’t matter if they didn’t. I beleive charity should be something we do from our own hearts. I can’t help it but to give each time we pass one. I believe we should give what we can, each chance we get, that the govt should get out of the charity business. IF people gave from their heart, people would be helped. IF people had to take what was given from a person, an actual person, they would not want to, they would work harder not to have to. THis is the way it was, and should be again. I feel strongly that Obama nad his believers should go. But I we must be careful not to harden our hearts. We must take back America, the right way. We must take it back, showing compassion and kindess at the same time. I feel that like many wars where people see an enemy, they forget they are also people. So please, I beg all of you, brainstorm ways you can help restore America, and do it with kindness. Do it boldly, legally, and kindly. Help eachother through it, and don’t harden your hearts. I am not saying not to vote, work and act in a way that will reach your goals, but we haven’t really won until we restore the goodness and kindness to those less fortunate, the honesty of hard work, and the right way of thinking to our children. We have a lot of work ahead to restore AMerica. But please remember not to hate other countrymen. They have been brainwashed, sold a fake bill of goods. I don’t hate those in Detroit, I feel sorry for them. ESPeciallY those that DIDN’T vote for these people there. I live on the NON-SEATTLE side of Washington…where almost no one votes democrat. Yet the seattle side of the state outvotes us every time. There are good people with good values in every place. We must gather them together to vote, to help eachother, to work hard to restore America and her values, without hurting others. We can do it, I believe it. You must too or it won’t ever get there.

Igorant as rocks maybe, but selfish the American people are not. We have funded and funded till we can’t fund no more and that only because the Illuminati took away our jobs. This Christmas, let the bankers fill the kettles with the trillions they stole from the dumb but giving American puiblic.

It has been proven again and again that Republicans are a shriveling MINORITY in this country. So why so powerful? They are very organized. Why are they more organized? Because they are sheep. They do as they are told and love conformity. This is also why they are drawn to religion (although they are complete hypocrites on this, loving money, hating the poor, loving war, etc.) and the military (also hypocritically).

Not to worry, the government will save you?

Big surprise there. If the city were full of good Christians who thought that good quality efficient work was what was required to earn a living your kettles would be full. Instead, your citizens are nothing but a bunch of mooches who like to live off the welfare state and the government coercion of union mobsters. Those kinds of people think every penny they have they are entitled to, and as unearned as it is, they are the far less likely to ever part with a single one than a man who works 60 hours a week to barely feed his family from his own industry.

i wonder how all the Black soldiers coming home from service feel about these comments saying blacks just take and never give. Typical Republican/conservative ignorance.

Don’t call them racist though! lol

Well considering most of the honest wealthy have left town, one would expect little in donations. After all, studies show conservatives donate much more than liberals who expect the government to just manufacture the money.

Well, as smarmy as the Demostinks have been to turn the beautiful state of MI into welfare central… It’s also quite ludicrous for a Christian organization to expect muslim Detroit to care 2 stinks about donating a penny toward a charity that isn’t exclusively for radicals to take down “the great western satan”!!

You’re a damn idiot! My guess would be that you don’t have a job and have probably never paid taxes….and I would also bet that you are one of the first to look for government handouts and have never done a freakin thing in your lifet to help anyone else!

Uhm, Bob, most toilets actually work, even if it does take a few flushes.

Since 1957 there has only been one Republican mayor in the city of Detroit, and he left office in 1962. Since 1962 to today all the Mayors of the City of Detroit have been Democrats. So save the trickle down comments for some other city.

To my Godmother: Well check this out dear mother – this does present a bad image for the head honchos at the SA.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/01/05/free-housing-deals-for-salvation-army-officers-create-image-prob/

Do some homework before you flip your lips. SA officers make $125,00 a year as well.

Its sad because the Salvation army is a great organization. However you are asking donations from a populace that also asks money from the rest of the tax payers. Detroit is a good example for black seperatists who want their own city or part of the country. Well here you go. You can’t blame Whites, Conservatives or Christians on the situation.

Lol. you sound like a very insecure person. Right wing people like to shoot at Salvation army folks? go back to your mams basement before you hurt yourself son.

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Maybe Michael Moore will make a donation, cause he is all about helping out the 99% right?

Maybe, Pooby, since you like to disrespect the Republicans so much, perhaps you could wax eloquently on the success of the Democrats who have run Detroit for decades. I am surely not in love with Repubs myself, but the socialist bent of the Democrats leads to continually failed cities like guess what? Detroit and the surrounding area!

Detroit is Muslim capital of USA. Low charity donations? Any coincidence …ABSOLUTELY. Look how those 57 nations come to the aid of another nation in need.

Maybe if the crooks running this organization didn’t steal the hundreds of millions they received a year or so ago from that multimillionaire dying and leaving their fortune to them…they’d still have some money……

China is a country of 1,300,000,000 people ruled by 50 million blood-sucking dog ticks.

Salvation Army are just a bunch of crazed right wing bible thumpers. They don’t help anyone and just spread hate. Obama 2012

No sympathy from me. I am a Detroit native that left the town 30 years ago.

There are two groups that cast votes in Detroit. Tha African Americans that are stupid enough to throw in 99% of their votes to the Democratic Party to get the honor of living in the most run down city in America! Then the Union Voters that mail it in for the priviledge of living in a city with the highest unemployment rate in the U.S.

If these fools are crazy enough to do this every election…..God Bless ‘em.

One day you would hope that some of these people could start thinking about what they are voting for….it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad! Detroit….long live the unions and the Democrats.

“blacks join the military to get pay/benefits not out of patriotism”? Thanks for The KKK viewpoint Jack! I think your white hood is a bit too tight though. For anybody who he actually loves this country, looks at the brave men in this link. You think they just did it for the benefits?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

Hey Jack! if you went back in time to the “good old days” of the 40′s, i bet you’d have a Mauser in your hand and not a Garand right pal?

Why don’t we just send OBAMA’S STASH to save the city?

The Michigan expats living in Texas are the first people in line to buy Cowboy hats and western boots. Do not want anyone to think that they are from Detroit!

Michigan license plates are gone off the car in one day

Don’t you remember, it’s the democrats who care about the poor and middle class, it’s the republican who want dirty air and dirty water. These People need to wake up before all of our cities look like Detroit, Chicago, Philly and Cleveland etc. etc…. Flint is being taken over my Arabs and soon Sharia Law will be the law of the land there. Houses selling for$1.00 in Dearborn.

Which charities would those be, pTerrance. You put it out there now back it up with some prove, CITE YOUR SOURCES!!!!

If any people anywhere on the planet are to be most pitied, it is the black man in America. Not because he is inferior. He is not. In many ways, a black man is demonstrably superior. No. He is to be pitied for very opposite reasons than some bogus inferiority. For many decades following Reconstruction, American blacks* demonstrated perseverance, excellence, bravery in the face of institutional racism. Black people organized, protested, fought in and out of courts for their right to be equal. It was a noble fight. It resulted in the various and long overdue Civil Rights Acts of the 60′s. But then something changed. Black people started to stop these activities and instead began trusting dubious leaders. The Civil Rights Act seemed to embolden the worst aspects of the aggrieved movement. Leadership became idiotically militant and hostile and, most of all, selfish, self-important and self-serving. Black people began to no longer trust themselves, but rather government and politicians and institutions, Black people bought into the rhetoric of victimization and restitution. Fifty years later – the black family is in shambles. Religion is paid lip service (proclaim conservative values but vote liberal at 94%). Single moms dominate the black community at 70%. Black men have little shame in not raising THEIR families. Rap music and the accompanying attitude dominate. This is not what Dr. King had in mind. Hell, it aint was Rosa Parks envisioned.

16.8 % of the Detriot population is living in poverty. So, should they go rob one bell ringer so they can donate to another? detriot is a creation of of liberal engineering. Just like Memphis and L.A. and any city that’s been under liberal rule. I’m so glad to be living in a small town in Wisconsin with concealed carry. Let them come and try to occupy our Main st.

Why does your graph stop in 2007? Could it be that the Obama policies have destroyed the top 1 percent. Half a truth is worse than a lie. It is 2011.

If liberals were put in charge of the Sahara dessert, it wouldn’t be long before we would have a shortage of sand.

Even Jesus would be tired of these deadbeats by now..

Nearly 1/5 of an American state living in poverty? That’s astonishing! There’s nothing like that (yet) in Europe with all its current economic woes. How has it come to that?
http://tracesofevil.com

There be too much truth tellilng here for the takerss of our society to swallow. I’m too tired to be a giver any more. Tapped out and burned out. Ex-wife, child support, alimony, attorneys have taken what’s left. Ain’t no one helping me. Expect the same from me from now on.

Hah. Expect entitlement-minded darkies to give to charity? They expect everyone else to pay for them!

it’s OK since xmas is pagan in concept…

don

Detroit would be worse than Haiti if it wern’t for welfare handouts. Haiti is a Democratic country also.

I stopped donating to Salvation Army due to their anti-gay stance. I now donate to WWF and the ASPCA instead.

I feel better helping animals anyway. They really can’t help themselves.

To the Salvation Army IN Detroit. Sorry guys the current political climate in Detroit voted for by the bought peoples and unions must now deal with this problem. You may not help them out. They must now feel the consequences – yes it is hard. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. But hopefully they will learn the actual truth that you have been hiding from them. Life is hard, life is harder when you are stupid.

Whatever. This city ran itself into the ground. RIP Detroit. F-u.

Detroit must be hell on earth.

Ditto for my family. If the Salvation Army wants to work to deny rights to some people, then they don’t deserve support.

First the State ripped the city off and promised to repay them, then they refused to repay the millions which put the city in financial crisis, and then the Governor wants to negate democratic elections and appoint his own dictator. Some would call that fascism. I think Detroit Metro should cecede from the State of Michigan and then we’ll see how well those idiots in Lansing can run Michigan without the money Detroit metro generates.

Ummmm….the State of Michigan has been run by a Republican Senate for decades. And it was Republicans that ran our economy into the ground under Bush and Gingrich. Every recession in the history of our country for the last 150 years began under Republicans with the exception of the oil embargo in Carter’s administration. Get a clue.

Salvation Army is a church and they use the money to spread their brand of religion. I’d rather donate to Goodwill where there are programs to retrain people and help them get a job – and they don’t have to buy into somebody’s religious beliefs. Or, donate to Purple Heart and help our Vets.

Racism is alive and thriving in your house. So is stupidity. The majority of folks I see using Food Stamp Bridge cards are white. But I guess you only see or believe what you want to believe. Poverty doesn’t care what your color is. In fact, it may visit your own house some day.

It came to that when multi-nationals fell in love with cheap labor in China and India. Now we import everything – including foreign labor. We hire companies like TATA to take over operations in our companies, and they transfer workers here on L-1 visas which means they don’t have to be paid the prevailing wage for that job. Tata pays them a stipend, not a salary, so they don’t pay any US taxes. Then when they go back home, they get a lump sum payment. By importing the labor, the company gets cheap labor and the taxpayer picks up the tab for the displaced American worker on unemployment.

Since Texas has been run by Republicans for many years, one would think they would eventually wise up and stop voting Republican. But that would call for some intelligence, which has never been in abundance down there. The only thing that seems in abundance in Texas (having lived there for a time myself) is supreme arrogance.

You can always tell when a story is linked to Drudge by all the ignorant,hateful,venomous comments spewed by right-wingers.

There is some truth to your comments, however we DO have a trade agreement with China, pushed through by Republicans and signed by Clinton. When that happened, lots of factories in Mexico closed and got relocated to China. Companies are forever searching for slave labor and as Mexicans organized and got better pay, multinationals bought politicians and moved assets to China or other slave labor countries. That’s why I don’t buy Apple products. They employed child laborers in China to make their products. How does an American family compete with slave labor?

Correct. Give people something for nothing for votes. Best democratic president was grover cleveland:

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.[96]

“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

Socialism works… until you run out of other peoples money. Detroit, enjoy your situation! I’m broke too!

You are amazingly correct. Democrats just aren’t happy unless they are dragging the states into the dregs. A warped state of affairs.

Gosh! Could that comment been from our dem. president or did they just spout his rhetoric?

I am sorry for those in need who are trying to work and raise families. As for those who support the Democrat’s communism, I say “you reap what you sow.”

This is only the beginning of Obama’s America. It’s going to get ugly out there folks.
Be safe, be prepared.

I’m sorry Sal Arm, but when you give out the groceries and toys it’s like market day in Nairobi. What’s left of the middle class is tired of the poor(?) who game the system.

Why haven’t they called one of the insider traders on K Street? That’s right, do as I say, not as i do. The Leftist mantra.

Denise: There are many in the 90 to 95% range. Just to mention one; Catholic Relief Services, 228 West Lexington Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, is at 95%.

a big reason there is income disparity is that there are a number of people that dig a hole early, fatherless homes, out of wedlock births, drop out of school, do drugs, are essentially unemployable, etc and 99% of those can never get out of that hole and then they complain about the income disparity.

Perhaps the Salvation army, should put all its Kettles in front of the Pawn Shops and ‘Crack Houses’, as they are the only people left that have any money.

70 years of liberalism, took the number one high paying city in the world to just a hugh sewer.

Gee, typical dimocrat mess: No Hope and No Change.

Yup put in a Republican and I will send in money. If the people there ars so stupid to keep doing the same wrong stuff. Let them suffer to they get it figured out.

Dear Doug Dittmer,

You must have conveniently forgotten that Jennifer Grandholm (Duh) was governor for two terms. And in those two terms the Duhs had the house.

Dear Miss Monika,

Excellent reply. I will remember your remark: “Most toilets actually work….”

Merry Christmas to you.

You nailed it recardo. The Salvation Army is at the very top.

Red Cross has over 30% aDMINISTRATIVE COSTS
The UN is at one of the highest ciosts at 67% administrative costs.
Some of the animal groups are at 97% administrative costs.

If anyone is dumb enough to think that there are lots of groups that are much lower than 10%, then “”"”"”"”"”"PLEASE”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"” list them to all of us so we can spread the word.

I wouldn’t drop a nickle in their kettle, however I would send a check to their local office. Do you know how much money never gets from the giver to the actual receiver’s bank account. Think about it folks, we are dealing with cash.

we need to DEMAND WELFARE CHECKS BE INCREASED so they can donate to charities (after they resell their crack cocaine for a profit)

Pooby loves to drink the Kool-Aid! Too bad your mama didn’t exercise her liberal right to have you aborted when you were still non-human. Oh, oh! That hasn’t changed huh?

How’s that “hope and Change” going? Afterall, your only getting what you have been voting ofr. Btw change is coming and your not going to like it.

Maybe the City Council can donate the money from their city vehicles and city cell phones? They won’t give them up to help with the budget disasters but I’m sure they’ll give them up for the Salvation Army. Let’s start a phone campaign to their offices suggesting this!!

How’s that “hope and Change” going? Your only getting what you voted for. But you have seen nothing yet. CHange is coming and your not going to like it.

McAllen is on the border. 65 years ago the only illegals that crossed worked here and worked hard. Now every illegal that can walk or be wheeled over comes across for our welfare. They are not even here to do jobs Americans wont do. They just dump out anchor babies and voila they receive almost every subsidy listed above.

PS My guess is no less than 95% of those 25 year old grandmothers are Mexican. I’m not PC or apologetic either.

In my area, the Philly gr oids are stealing the kettles and using them to beg for money.

Of course not. These people support libt ard causes.

I give less to the S.A this year, as well as beggers on the street because I hardly ever carry cash anymore. This loss of donation is a direct result of having plastic instead of money in my case.

Sorting clothes masqueraded as “Job Training” is a SCAM; people need REAL TRAINING with trade certifications & career degrees.

FOOD FOR THE POOR makes it to about 93% to the recipients

Hello Doug Dittmer
The Federal Government will never be able to spend us out of this recession.
The ignorant liberal Progressives put us where we are right now. Now the facts
you’ll never hear from the Golden Stream media. January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress: At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6%. George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION! These are facts. The house controls the money. This downward spiral started under the control of the liberal democrats taking over both the senate and the house. Obama, Pelosi and Reid have only made it worse. The Democrats will never be able to fix the economy. There’s not enough rich people to tax.

check out “CHARITYNAVIGATOR.org” details revenues and expenditures

Charity is not to be a private matter in leftist land. Your earnings are to be seized by force and spent by the government. Failure to applaud loudly as this happens will get you labeled as “greedy, selfish and uncaring.” Pay no attention to how this money is wasted while the rulers doing the seizing only enrich themselves and their already-prosperous supporters.

New York, New Jersey, Chicago, St. Louis, Michigan, California… you have to be completely ignorant to not see that strongholds of liberalism get completely wrecked. Or you know it is happening, but zealotry keeps you voting for those destroying your community and livelihoods. Then, three inches from the precipice, vote in a few conservatives… and blame the mess on them.

Enjoy, Detroit. You repeatedly asked this on yourselves.

Obama’s brand of socialism, which is an amalgamation of the Nationalist and Communist varieties despises America.

Except Islamic America, which is an excellent example of both types since it is a religion that through Sharia Law controls every aspects of one’s life. Virtually enslaving the believer.

National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party, referred to in English as the NAZI Party (Hitler’s socialism for the German ‘Teutonic’ Race). In reality though no different than the left’s socialism.

Like Stalin, for the white Russians, or Pol Pot, for the Khmer Rouge, or Ho Chi Minh, for the Viet Minh, or Mao, for the Han Chinese.

Socialist Gods that brought death and misery to tens if not hundreds of millions of humans.

Let us not forget our SOCIALIST God, Mein Lord God High Fü&rer Obama, for America’s liberal elite, Muslims, OWS and welfare voters on the dole.

Rush? Is that you?

Meanwhile, Mein Fü&rer and Her Royal Highness Queen Moochelle, will dine on Italian White Alba truffles, Kobe steak, blue lobsters and they’ll wash it down with a bottle of Rothschild’s Chateau Lafite 1869, out of a brown paper bag, Chicago style.

While we must eat our peas… and learn to appreciate it.

Mugabe would have done a better job. Detroit should become an African nation.

“With 16.8 percent of Michigan residents living in poverty — the highest percentage in four decades — we simply can’t afford to miss making our goal of $8.2 million this year,” I agree this goal is unattainable. Higher rate of poverty=less people that are able to donate. Not to mention the mass exodus of people from Michigan. Our population has gone down so much that we lost a seat in the US House of Representatives. I donate clothing, furniture, and other necessary items, but we are running paycheck to paycheck and I have no money to give. Regardless as to whether your a Dem or Rep, Michigan citizens are BROKE. If Detroit wants to help itself, it needs to do something to try and bring people into the city. Like tear down all the dilapidated buildings and houses, and start rebuilding. It’s your turn Detroit, pick yourselves up, because if everyone is sitting in the apple cart it will go no where.

funny

then add on Medicare tax, Soc. Security tax, State tax, Sales tax, property tax….it’s rediculous

Go figure…Detroit the Epi-center of Loving, Giving and Kind Islam here in America is having a problem..

Im not trying to be,yah know,but certain minority groups are well,they just dont tip,let alone do much charity.

last time i checked, fatherless babies can’t afford anything.

I will not give one bloody cent to the Salvation Army because I have seen where the money goes. Let Detroit go to the dogs. If the suburbanites try to help with schools and city run instirutions that are failing we are called racists. Well, you can have your city and you can have your water. As soon as the city declairs bankrupsy Rick will step in and take it over once and for all. Good bye Detroit, Be sure to thank your liberal democrats on the way out of town.

After the dems ran detroit into the ground, I didn`t think there was anyone left in that city

It’s called “running out of other peoples money”

Put Santa back at the kettles, and you will see more donations. Dis Santa, and you’re on the naughty list. People will give to a Santa bell-ringer. It IS Christman, stop trying to make it just look like some generic holiday with a dude in an apron.

Ron Reale

Proven by whom? There are twice as many Republicans as Liberals, 40% vs 20%. Besides that mistake, everything else you said about how republicans feel is a lie. But you know that, you’re just trying to spout the liberal talking points, thinking no one is paying attention.
You’re wrong about that, too!
Merry Christmas!

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CGent says “the facts you’ll never hear from the Golden Stream media.” We won’t hear those “facts” because they aren’t true. Chew on these: GDP average growth by President: Nixon/Ford 2.69; Carter 3.28; Reagan 3.42; BushSr 2.14; Clinton 3.71; Bush43 2.28. Hmmm. That means the average under Republicans was 2.63 and the average under Dems was 3.28. All the recessions in our country began under Republican administrations except for the OPEC created world recession. So how is it Republicans claim to be so good for business??

White Collar Crime is what’s killing America! White’s are so surreptitious that no one even sees it coming til it’s too late.. Damage done!!!

People are so hateful and clueless I bet you try to blame thiss on Obama and his “walfare” program also. Forgetting that your “Bush” is the reason were in the mess were in now. Leave the “Demo’s”‘ alone its not his fault its taking alittle longer to clean up this mess! Get over your selves! Fools!

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