If you can afford to donate, you have a duty to donate

[bluestateguy]

If you have the funds, you have a duty to donate whatever money you can to a legitimate relief agency. I don't know about you, but I'll be damned if I'm going to just sit here and complain and not also be a part of the solution in whatever way I can.

Link to relief agencies: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9115520/

[AverageJoe]

1. I agree

But my guess is a much higher percentage of DUrs are making donations than you will find in the general population or over at freeperville.

[bluestateguy]

2. kick

:kick:

[txaslftist]

3. Help Please!

Dear, Dear Friends:

The catastrophe in New Orleans has us all heartbroken, worried, tearful and enraged. The Republicans have mismanaged the evacuation in such a terrible way that many more lives are being lost even as we sit at our computers and desperately try to figure out how we can help.

The time to cast blame will come. It has come. The president's appointment of a crony to head FEMA, his cutting funding to shore up the levies, his continued vacation during the critical hours... These things are all coming home to roost.

Our leaders seem to be stuck, and no one seems to be able to figure out what to do, when the solutions are obvious. The people of New Orleans need to be evacuated. They need food and water. And the government has proven it is incompetent to accomplish these very simple things.

There is an open road into New Orleans. When some families in the Superdome pooled their money and raised $25,000.00 to charter a bus out of the danger zone, the National Guard turned the bus back a mile short of its destination because it was "too dangerous". And yet the Great City of Houston is able to send caravans of buses into the city to retreive our fellow Americans and take them to the Astrodome.

Even here, in Lubbock, Texas, we have taken in refugees.

The time has come to act.

Let me tell you what I am going to do today, with the help of God. I am going to call the Lubbock Democratic Party and see if we can send a truckload of donated food and water and ice into New Orleans. I am going to see if we can raise the money to charter a bus.

I hope and pray we will be successful. I know it will only be one truck and one bus, but every little bit will help. If the Democratic Headquarters in every city in the United States can do something like this, even if only to send a minivan full of clean water into the city, we will save lives.

We will shame the Republicans into trying to outdo us. We cannot depend on the incompetents currently running the show.

Please call your local Democratic Headquarters and ask what you can do to help. If you have guest room in your house, please open up your doors and welcome a refugee if you can. Call the Democrats in the areas around New Orleans and ask what they need.

That is what I am going to do today. I ask you to do no less.

From Txaslftist, your friend.

[bluestateguy]

4. kick

:kick:

[Coexist]

5. Every time I go to the grocery store (Publix)

I add money to my total to go to the victims. It is an easy convenient way to continually donate until the end of this crisis. I hope ya'all that shop at Publix do the same.

[Generic Other]

6. In some cases people have no choice in the matter!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4579757

[im10ashus]

7. I have already donated, but thanks for reminding us.

:hi:

[brooklynite]

8. Yesterday, I asked the Admins...

if they could develop an "I donated" avatar for use when bandwidth usage settles down. It would be a nice way to remind well-meaning DU'er who haven't gotten around to donating yet to do so, and to show our level of support for dealing with the crisis.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. I've got nothing. No money at all and a trailer that barely holds us.. I

am too far away to go help...

I am so pissed that there is nothing I can do, so I am writing the people on the Hill and telling them not to give ** a pass on this. That it is HIS fault that the Dept of Fatherland security and FEMA are so worthless. It ain't much but I have to do SOMETHING.

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