My Weekly Rant

I think it's only fair that since I have this blog and since it's mine, I should be duly annointed to rant at least once a week. Therefore, I decided I should rant right.....about....NOW! Before I prep to get to work, I get hit up by yet another fucking "Please buy my shit solicitor." You all have been hit up by them before - on the street, at your house, by the coffee-bar; wherever it is where you have something to do and someone seems to always want to get in your fucking way.
I get this EVERYDAY. Not once a week or a month - EVERYDAY.

I'm sick of it. These people are worse than tele-marketers and they're just as god-awful annoying. What pisses me off even more, is their assanine belief that I'm going to fall for their "we are a church group" or "we represent Mothers Against Drunk Driving" or "whatever good, charitable organization that you think I belong to just so I can try to hustle you." Those dudes piss me off beyond belief!

I maybe somewhat cynical, or even jaded, here, but work with me - hell, some of you may think I'm a bonafide asshole. I do not believe in "charitable" organizations. Period. March of Dimes? Should be called March to give me monies. Salvation Army. Should be called I salivate to get your money. Goodwill? Goodfuckingluckingettingthisastaxwriteoff.

I'm jaded because unlike most Americans, I completely understand the concept of how "charities" work - not that you all don't either, but what you see on the commericals and shit - that's all the gimmick. Ya see, all charities are actually businesses. They are deemed nonprofit, but they actually are profit. It's kind of hard to explain and I don't want to get it drawn out here because I'm sure you'll get bored. In a nutshell, check out how much these "charitable" organizations make, how much they pay their directors (it's obscene - a small Oklahoma chapter with a surrounding population of about 25,000 people, the director there makes in excess of $225,000 per year - I'm not kidding). Information of what I stated in the prior sentence is all true. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying those people shouldn't get paid, but when I donate money, I don't want it to go to the board of directors. It needs to go to purchasing supplies and food.

If any of you recall my posts from late last year, I promoted HELPING people. I don't give money. I phsyically go out and help people so that I know for a FACT they are getting the help they need and deserve. It's much too easy to pass out dollar or a check, then feel good about yourself as your drive your ass home, thinking you did a good "deed."

Some of you may disagree with me and that's cool. Some of you may know some REALLY good charities - and that's even better.

But please, for the love of god, don't use charitable organizations (good or bad) to try to hustle a buck out of me. As I've said before and always will, YOU CAN'T HUSTLE A HUSTLER.

/rant off