Today mail brought one of those begging letters designed to make me feel guilty by giving me free junk so I give them a donation.

The Disabled Veterans National Foundation sent me a cheap calculator complete with my name in a sticker on it to the thing,
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Man,
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Those scum,
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As anyone who reads me knows,
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And, of course,
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The link will take you to their findings, but here a summary:

The DAVNF raised more than $7,
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It spent more than $14 million last year, including more than $11 million on fund raising.

Yeah,
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Nothing,
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But when you take a closer look at those numbers and their allocation,
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Schedule G has more details about professional fundraising activities,
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Fundraiser: Quadriga Art,
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Activity: Printing and Mail Services

Did fundraiser have custody or control of contributions? Yes

Gross receipts from activity: $7,784,936

Amount paid to (or retained by) fundraiser: $15,
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Amount paid to (or retained by) charity: $ 7,665,
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Unless DVNF contract with Quadriga requires Quadriga to eat the loss (and it might), that means that DVNF started 2009 with more than $7.6 million of 2009 donations already mortgaged to Quadriga,
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There more,
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But why? The last thing we need is yet another new charity to help veterans there are lots already. The duplication of adding a new one very expensive duplication means a lot of people are donating money to what they think will help veterans now, but they not. They donating to a promise that maybe,
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Who are they helping now? The company that packages up all those crap calculators and other garbage to try to make you feel guilty,
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Bottom line: Keep the calculator if you need one, keep the checkbook cover if you can stand all the ultra patriotic drivel on it,
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The VFW posts in Ogden (801 393 1585) or Layton (801 546 0948) are run by scrupulously honest people who I personally know and vouch for,
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