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This is way worse then I expected. Red Cross? If you want to give money to Red Cross, you can give money to Red Cross. The organization has a monopoly. It's near impossible not to donate money to disaster relief and not watch it funneled through the organization. Pat Robertson I expect, but Red Cross? Yeah, I'm outraged they would take an extra dime when they've had a ton of fund raisers, and a banner link on every website in America, refusing anything but CASH... and now voulenteered labor.

Personally, I don't support first responders who don't respond. The smaller faith based charities stepped in part BECAUSE the Red Cross was so ineffective. I'm not talking about the ones listed on FEMA's website either, I'm talking about thos e little church groups that filled up a van and just went and did it without asking. If you asked, FEMA and Red Cross discouraged you.