There is nothing Positive about 'affirmative action'

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I donate to charity to help those less fortunate. Heck, I even donated to your charity and received a lovely letter from you in the mail today thanking me for my donation!

YOU are not the problem and frankly much of the time I do not understand your defense of the 1% and their corporate structure which is running the US into the ground.

Consider this, though.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/m...s_are.html

Over the past 30 years, corporate contributions to charities in the U.S., as measured by percentage of pretax profits, have fallen precipitously, from a high of 2.1 percent at its peak in 1986 to just around 0.8 percent in 2012. There is some year-to-year variability to this measure, because ironically enough, contribution percentages tend to rise in periods of poor corporate earnings. But the long-term curve is consistently down.

Gee...now what could have happened in the past 30 years? Oh, yeah...

With the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Reagan and Congress sought to raise taxes on lower incomes, eliminate many deductions, and reduce tax rates on the wealthy.

So, as their taxable income declined the need to reduce it by making charitable contributions evaporated. Americans have terribly short attention spans...we tend to look at 4 year election cycles but sometimes things take much longer to manifest themselves.

Income disparity in this country has been steadily rising since the Reagan administration.



We are fast becoming a "golden rule" society. As in "them that has the gold makes the rules" and yes, the fucking Koch brothers are the most extreme example. But far too many people fall for their bullshit despite the fact that they are living marginal existences with little hope of future improvement by letting these corporate pricks run rampant.

BTW, the dog on our website with the broken leg has survived his surgery and been adopted. The vets are very happy with his progress. He is going to make it.