Campaign contributions for 2010

[Aemilius Paulus]

Um, America under George Bush gave a huge amount to Africa. So in reality, that won't happen.

Yeah, I know, if you did not 'catch my drift' as the popular expression goes, I was rather facetious/exaggerating in that post of mine.


@ATPG:
You still sorta missed my main point. Think of giving money to parties as an investment. Sure, giving money directly to the Red Cross is a nice and simple way to help. But it is also selfish - such tithes are for our own conscience as much as for the deprived people of Haiti. A far-sighted, analytical, rational businessman will invest rather than put capital in a bank account. The former provides greater returns. By voting in the Democratic Party, you are hypothetically enabling them to spend much more money than you and like-minded people could ever hope to match by the virtue of their power and party agenda, as opposed to goodwill. That is why, I say, making national election campaign contributions theoretically does more good than straight donations to the humanitarian NGOs.

Remember, there are no simple answers. Nor does the truth normally lie on the extremes of any given issue - in fact, truth, overwhelmingly, lies in the middle, in the 'golden way', in the 'greys'. What you seem to endorse, ATPG, is an overly simplistic, rigidly dichotomous worldview.