This week’s YoungMoney.com article, “The Economic Homeless,” solidified my anger over the fact that it is so much easier to send donate money to help Haiti then it is to help people in this country. As stated in the article, text message donating is easy, it only takes a few seconds and you only are asked to give a little bit of money; so why doesn’t the American Red Cross or other charities have the same system of receiving text message donations?
This country is usually pretty good about coming together after a disaster. After 9/11 we saw an outpouring of patriotism and heroics; the country also came together after Hurricane Katrina to help rebuild New Orleans. But, when a problem is ongoing instead of a big reality-shattering disaster, it is much too easy for us to ignore it.
More money has been donated to help Haiti because of the ease and efficiency of text message donations. We should be able to send text message donations to help people here too.
Posted on : 03-02-2010 | By : Ben Levy | In : Young Money Talks
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Ben Levy, I think the Twitter short name for above article was in poor taste and insensitive. “Stop Sending Money to Haiti”?
I understand what you are saying in the article, that the poor in your own country deserve help, perhaps even more, and I agree.
Just next time please reread the Twitter headings for your articles so it won’t sound so cold. You had good points in your article but that heading would feel like a slap in the face to those with loved ones in Haiti.