The latest charity self-indulgence…
There appears to be a new charity craze sweeping social media – #wakeupcall, in which the famous take pictures of themselves after they’ve just woken up.
Much less entertaining than the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which died after everyone on planet Earth had drenched themselves in freezing water (although we’re still hoping Vladimir Putin might just be late to the party on that one), Wake Up Call raises money for Unicef’s Syria Emergency appeal.
The inanity of people never ceases to amaze…
If you want to give, then give. I don’t and won’t. Charity begins at home and will start the day the state stops taking money out of my wallet and giving on my behalf. But by all means piss your money away on Syria if that’s your bag. Your money and all that. But, no, I don’t want to see a selfie of you in your jimjams and you ain’t ever going to see a picture of me first thing in the morning, either. Not least, I don’t wear jimjams…
What I really object to is the government giving my taxes to charities. If I want to give, I will. Don’t do it for me…
Some deluded thinking there…the government taxes by forcibly removing cash from your pile under threat of financial penalty and loss of liberty. Unless you tax yourself and gift it to the government they aren’t your taxes.
Semantics. The end result is the same – our money is forcibly removed and used for purposes that, frankly, should be no concern of government.
Directly or indirectly the money still comes from the Taxpayers pocket.
It goes into the government coffers and the bloody government give it away to causes it should not be used for Bill. You are playing semantics.
point I obviously failed to make is the taxes are not mine…the stony faced one said “my taxes”…
No, we got it okay. The point though is that the government should not be in the charity business. Not least because the government doesn’t have any money – only that which it extorts from us.
on that we do agree…
Totally agree if I want to donate I will but I don’t expect the government to do it for me, and don’t get me started on foreign aid which is also charity in my name.
Agreed. My choices are far better than theirs; not the least because I don’t seek politically correct self-aggrandisement; neither do I dole out other people’s money to score party political points.
Entirely agree. I got nominated for that ice-bucket thing and told them to fuck off.
How about a celebrity self immolation challenge? 😈
Now that I would contribute too, some of them are thick enough to do it
And as Sarah Montague pointed out on Today this morning, the fact that already many of these women “celebs” are waking up fully made up speak more to the vacuous, self promoting vanity of women like Kelly Brook than it does to thier charitable intentions.