Charity Blown at Home

By
brock
– December 12, 2009Posted in: charity, Commentary

Charity begins at home.  How many times have we all heard that. It’s little more than  excuse for keeping few sawbucks in your pocket instead of tossing into Santa’s Kettle on your way out of Dean & Delucca or Williams Sanoma or Harris Teeter.

Wal-Mart location in Moncton
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Perhaps this it’s different; perhaps this year it’s not Bloomingdale’s you’re coming out of only to be confronted by “Santa” incessantly ringing that damn hand bell but K-Mart or Wal-Mart or, if Lady Luck has stuck by your side this year, Target.

You wisk by Santa without even dropping a quarter and you feel oddly OK with that.  There’s a reason:  you really CAN’T spare a fiver this year.

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About brock

Brock is currently the Executive Editor at Atlantic Media Strategies and former Chief Washington Correspondent for MSNBC; he is the founder/creator/editor of CyberWire Dispatch, the Net's pioneering online journalistic news service. Previously he was the Director of Communications for the Center for Democracy & Technology, a non-profit, Washington, D.C.-based public interest group working to keep the Internet open, innovative and free. The views expressed here are his alone and do not reflect the opinions, attitudes or policy positions of his employer(s) past or present.