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In response to "I listened to it. They were talking about donations, and he said "We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax."" by Guigue

Worst, it was in a totally paranoid rant saying that using the whitehouse.gov website to find ways to give to haiti

Posted by Guigue (aka Guigue) Jan 14 '10, 07:43

will not ensure that the money will go to Haiti, but you're sure to end up on some list asking for political contribution for Obama

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umm, except for the fact that the links the whitehouse.gov site provides go directly to the Red Cross anyway. -- nm - znufrii Jan 14, 07:47 14
- (here's the relevant page, if anyone is interested) -- (link) - znufrii Jan 14, 07:49 13
  - Of course he's not talking about the actual page on the actual website, he's talking about the government inserting itself between people and charity. -- nm - Ender Jan 14, 07:51 12
    - You haven't listened to it have you? - Guigue Jan 14, 07:55 1
      - and the red cross is running the SMS donation number, AFAIK -- nm - Beryllium Jan 14, 07:55
    - so he's saying the government *shouldn't* use any means at its disposal to encourage people to donate to charities? - znufrii Jan 14, 07:54
    - But they're not. They're leveraging a communications platform to helpfully direct people to an existing charity. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 14, 07:53 8
      - This was in regards to somebody apparently being pointed to whitehouse.gov in order to give. They could just as easily have been pointed to Redcross.org. - Ender Jan 14, 07:56 7
        
        Dude, they are insinuating that the money will not go to Haiti, and that your name will end up on a list and people will call you for contributions -- nm - Guigue Jan 14, 07:58 6
        
        You realize he doesn't script 3 hours of show a day and isn't actually intimitely aware of the website right? - Ender Jan 14, 08:01 5
        
        You hear what you want to hear. He specifically said "Would you trust the money's gonna go Haiti?" - Guigue Jan 14, 08:03 4
        
        L4 -- nm - Ender Jan 14, 08:05 3
        
        Dude... Forget it, you suck at arguing -- nm - Guigue Jan 14, 08:06 2
        
        To be fair, you suck at picking topics to argue about. 15 seconds of off the cuff dialog does not lend itself to intense analysis. - Ender Jan 14, 08:12 1
        
        If only you had anything to support your interpretation other than your obvious general appreciation for the guy - Guigue Jan 14, 08:15

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