Charity Begins at Home

From time to time, you hear about Bill Gates donating ridiculous amounts of money to the poor and the downtrodden and that disadvantaged youth. MILLIONS. How incredibly generous of him. How kind and thoughtful. My only problem is from where he gets his money.

You see, Microsoft if a filthy outsourcer. He takes jobs, and has them done overseas for a fraction of the cost. Now, you could argue the moral responsibility of business, or that it does not exist. You would have a point. My point is that I don't want to have to hear valuable news time wasted having his "donations" reported to me. All he is doing is robbing the lower middle class and giving to some of the poor. My hero.

Why can't he, as well as many other companies set up shop here in their "beloved" country (that they can only take from)? That would be charity. He is giving up profits for the good of the people of this country, and in turn, the country itself. I would even listen to a report explaining why it is charity.

I'll tell you why. Because, it is neither sensational or exciting to help people in general. It's always gotta be a cause or program, which, by the way, spends up to 80% paying its staff, with a meager amount going to the actual cause. (See: Red Cross in San Diego, the church in general.) Will it be too late? Will we go the way of the Roman Empire before someone figures out that the middle class pay most of the taxes and support this country?

If you kill the body, the head will die.