Save The Children asked me why i don't donate.. heres what i said..

While taking a survey online, Save the children asked me how much i would donate to this little girl in the picture.

I said 0.

How much would you donate to 200 starving kids in Africa?

I said 0.

They asked me, "You said 0, why is this your answer?"


"I just wanted to say that my answer is 0. I do not donate to any causes like this when i see them advertised on tv, i believe probably this whole issue of starving childen could be fixed by wealthy governments. They could even create a Tax, a small amount from every citizen, maybe tax a larger amount from the wealthy to feed the starving of the world. Take a couple pennies or fractions of pennies out of every single working citizens paycheck OF THE WORLD. and this starving children would not be a problem at all, and fractions of pennies would not even be noticed. when i see videos, and pictures like this using childrens faces, showing them starving and hungry to bring feelings of sadness to people, and then guilt to those people who dont donate is not kind of ugly. 2 pennies from 3 billion working people weekly will certainly do more than enough to fix this problem.. So the idea of making these videos and trying to get 10-100,200 dollars from a couple people, and taking advantage of emotions is not the right way to do it."



Kind of never though about it before, so this came up randomly..

I do not donate, because im pretty poor myself. lol

But this cant be a bad idea?

When i see these commecials to, something inside me just screams scam.. like those kids aren't getting all the money they should be anyway. another reason why taxing fractions of pennies from every working person weekly is probably not a bad idea?

Like i said, just a random thought.