Reply #7: Abandoned by FEMA but also abandoned by the American Red Cross, which

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has sucked up - with the Administration's and the networks' aid - 70% of all Katrina donations. Doing the numbers and assuming 300,000 people needing the care, that would work out to about $7,000 PER PERSON.

Yet as it has in so many other national disasters, the ARC has NOT come through. And even if it did, its focus is on the immediate aftermath of disasters, NOT on what is truly needed to get lives started again.

Yet because it vacuums up 70% of all American donations for hurricane victims, OTHER groups which WOULD help are starved of donations. It is a great tragedy - and most Americans are entirely unaware of it and continue to donate to the ARC.

See this thread for much more on this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4878601
Thread title: LA Times: "The Red Cross Money Pit" - The shocking, sorry TRUTH at last!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/25/95628/8554
dKos Diary title: LAT exposé: "The Red Cross money pit" - The TRUTH at last!!!