@nicholas @ninapaley @polarisera And herein lies the problem. We are governed by a new aristocracy who regards our money as their own private piggy bank to fund themselves and their cronies. The charity/industrial complex. They pretend they care about causes in order to steal money and blame us if we cut the funding because *starving orphans* or whatever. I find it hard to believe that any money ever went to a single deserving cause because the sort of people who do this don't have the empathy to care or the skill set to do good works. All they know is steal and lie.
And don't even get me started on the alphabet agencies, who have caused so many wars, upheaval, unrest, regime change, civil war, mass migration etc etc to further the interests of the military/industrial/pharmaceutical complex ie their cronies.
I think they almost want us to know, so they can rub our noses in it and say - look at us, we steal and lie, what are you going to do about it?
The arrogance.