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From Think Progress. I don't like the title of the TP post -- It's inaccurate.
Here are some excerpts.
Baumans friends created the page Bucks For Bauman! on the gofundme.com crowdfunding service. The money raised through donations to the site are meant to help Jeff and his family pay the exorbitant costs of his surgeries, ongoing medical care, and physical therapy. Since Tuesday, when the site was launched, Americans from across the country have poured in $158,294 in donations over half of the overall $300,000 goal.
So, poor reportage contradicts itself within the first two paragraphs. Jeff Bauman is not responsible for this. It's his friends.
Nevertheless, this is an important issue. People have been maimed to an extent that their families will be profoundly affected. Bauman's friends have started a worthy movement to help those whose lives have been cast into turmoil with huge consequences for their families.
More.
And one more.
Here's Bucks for Bauman.
I am sure that there may be places to donate for others effected by the Marathon Bombers or even West, TX. I invite others to add other pleas herein. Please provide adequate descriptions. Thank you.
And please keep this late night thread kicked.
Link to Think Progress post: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/19/1896951/bauman-crowd-funding-medical/
William769
(55,146 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Thanks. Making people click through before they know what it's about is not good fundraising strategy.
Thanks.
MADem
(135,425 posts)bombing. It was established by Gov. Patrick and Mayor Menino, and it has top-shelf legal oversight.
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longship
(40,416 posts)I suspect other DUers are in the same boat.
Thanks anyway.
Cha
(297,196 posts)do everything they can to help these people physically and psychologically in the future.
The cornerstone donation to The One Fund Boston is a $1 million commitment from John Hancock. John Hancock is honored to contribute to The One Fund Boston, aiding those who were affected by this terrible event, said Craig Bromley, President. The Boston Marathon is about courage and resilience and community. John Hancock, which has been headquartered in Boston for more than 150 years, will continue to stand by our city, the people of Boston, our community partners, the runners, and the Boston Athletic Association as we unite in recovery and in renewal of our commitment to the Boston Marathon.
To contribute to The One Fund Boston, click on onefundboston.org.
longship
(40,416 posts)AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,850 posts)idwiyo
(5,113 posts)to pay medical bills in the richest country in the world. Never mind that NO ONE should be put in a position where they cannot receive medical care while their own government spends hundreds of billions of dollars on military budget.
I am sure there's donations available for people in West, TX, too. Maybe somebody wants to post a pitch for them here, too. Seems like a good thread for it.
It is what it is. We'll all do what we can.
If we were a civilized, first world country we'd have health care as a basic human right.
BanTheGOP
(1,068 posts)But what really pisses me off the most is that we have the EPITOME of the TOTAL VICTIM. Not just of an act of cowardice by the bomber, but an even GREATER act of cowardice by congressional republicans who DEMONIZED the affordable health care act. Had the republicans not been as oppressively evil as they are, Obamacare would be working without a hitch. And we wouldn't even be HAVING this pitiful discussion.
NO American should EVER have to pay for quality health care. NEVER.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Granny M
(1,395 posts)This could be any one of us, our lives turned upside down in an instant.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)GiveMeFreedom
(976 posts)I put my money where my mouth is. He needs some cash, I gave him some. See? Peace.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)onestepforward
(3,691 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)It was the FBI who identified the perpetrators, not Mr. Bauman, for whom I have a great deal of sympathy. . The images the professionals put out Wednesday afternoon led friends of Bauman to recognize the same individual in one of Bauman's posted images ... A better digital version than the store security video.
it's simply like the FBI put out an old fashioned wanted poster. And the ultimate discovery of the suspect was old fashioned, too: a real life viewing in a back yard.
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