Charity is a business

Giving away a quantity of your money or other power, to those with less than you, seemingly for no direct material return. Charity. It seems odd that intelligent shrewd people would suspend their capital accumulating bleed-blood-out-of-a-stone instinct, and harm their own bank balances for the benefit of others who offer them nothing in return.

Further, it often materialises that the poor give more generously to charity than the rich. Not in absolute figures, but as a percentage of their net worth. Should one then conclude the poor to be morally superior to the rich? With regards to your personal safety: Would you prefer to make a nightly strol through beverly hills or the favella?

The young claim the title of idealism and fanatical dreamers. But its the elderly who hold the purse strings.

Yet the elderly pensioner struggles to remain relevant to society and has come to fear isolation. Mostly on a set pension, the elderly give amounts often, in a bid to connect and be in the thoughts of the community at large - to connect with youth and dynamism.

Its well known phenomena that haus-fraus of the upper middle class can experience emptiness and compensate by fairly substantial involvement in local level charity or the charitable elements of her husbands business or organisational constructs.

Tax deductibility makes charity a viable public relations mechanism for any organisation whether it be commercial political or otherwise.

Why pay one million dollars for a tv advertising campaign, when the same money provided to a charity would make a solid reference point from which the public could categorise that organisation beyond its core function. And the tv campaign is not tax deductible, whereas the charity contribution may prove just as effective propaganda as the tv commercial, yet it lowers the real tax bill for that year from 30% down to only 3 or 4%! Why do giant organisations give away their money? Answer: Its tax deductible propaganda.

The first step up from being unemployed is the job of collecting for charity. Entry is easily accomplished as barriers to employment as a door knocker are few, and all folk bar the criminal are eligible to perform this function. However from the point of view of the recipients of the charity funds, the institution itself is regarded with suspicion. That the needy so eager for nourishment, would distrust organised charity, prompts the prudent inquisitor to look closer, take a second look, and generally get to the bottom of the issue. What is the true nature of charity?

Organised charity means an organisation comprised of individuals who were it not for the salary received, be offering their resignation and sending their resumes to the next prospective employer. In so far as charity must compete in a commercial environment for the interest of the pool of potential "team members"; the charity organisation must, like commercial organisation, be prepared to offer a competitive salary - not only to the bureaucratic functionaries, but to the board of directors and the Chief executive. Or so say the architects of charitable organisation. But have you seen the silly money they throw at CEO's these days?

Of course the backbone of face value charitable donation is the concept of self sacrifice and of generosity as well as humanity and high moral mindedness. That is why charity organisations in their true operational reality are so contradictory and hypocritical.

In a perfect charitable organisation every employee from the CEO down to the door knocker, would commit themselves ascetically to working their 40 hour week for no pay at all! Is that not what charity is about? These charitable individuals, imbued with an undying sense of urgency, would in a perfect world come together to form an organisation that enables increased efficiency in achieving the goal borne of their hearts desire spurred on by their human empathy and sympathy, driven forward by the nightmare that african teenager girls watch their babies painful death in their arms of preventable malnutrition. These faithful of the religion of giving would in a perfect world band together beat the drum loudly and in a matter of one decade bring about an end to the African continent's1000 year human suffering thanks to their fanatical dedication to the eradication of suffering. And as the real world suffering alleviated by their hands, so to the mental image burning in the minds eye of the charitable crusader evaporates, no longer is their middle class conscience dogged by the immovable image of the black mother as she exclaims in sheer consternation of deepest psychic agony at the big eyed infant too weak to murmur but speaking with its big clear eyes, asking again, for the milk that no longer flows. In 2008 children continue to starve to death! She knows her infant's destiny. Hers has been an unspeakable painful tortuous journey into an adulthood of a life as shattered as a broken mirror. Severed limbs and atmospheric criminal menace that pervades all life and makes even good men turn bad., but her infants is worse. She would make any sacrifice but she can do nothing. Powerless. Without power. But in reality those who work in organised charity view their job with the dispassion that is borne of a primary concern for their mortgage repayments and their iphone bill.

If asked to find the worst kind of personality, I would advise delay the visit to a jail in favour of first visiting the office of the nearest charity! In a perfect would the entire charity apparatus would be thrown into jail. Africa's ongoing strife is continuing testimony to the falseness of these cold hierarchies. To sum it up: Charity is linked to Africa in the same way that trade tariffs are linked to the price of cocoa butter.

Its obvious that in modern times charity is the chief instrument in the impoverishment of the African continent. To put it another way: Africa has resources, and we control them with instruments. One such instrument is the tariff, another the boycott and yet another - so useful in pulling the wool over your eyes, the charity.

Here's a powerful point: Ask yourself this question...When I go into the supermarket to buy a block of chocolate, how many brands that I find come from America United Kingdom Switzerland Belgium Italy or France? All of them is the answer. To put it another way, shouldn't you be asking where the chocolate comes from? Does it come from USA, UK, Italy France Belgium etc? Answer: No. Where does chocolate come from? Answer: From Africa. Question: Why don't I see any African owned companies brand names chocolate for sale in my local supermarket? Answer: We control Africa.

Because we control Africa, every sack full of cocoa beans sent to the West comes to us at a super deflated artificially low price. The price is so low that the African guys who sell it to us can sometimes barely afford to put food on the table. And its not a simple economics concept of honest supply and demand. What it is is that every time these impoverished hard workers go on strike and refuse to send us the beans, we the West retaliate by canceling orders as a syndicate of one interest. We can afford to wait while the poor Africans simply starve to death. So after a few months they relent and agree once more to sell us the cocoa beans at the price we set for them. And so it goes. I should have a choice between Cadbury Nestle Orion Ferero, and so on with also some African Chocolate manufacturers in the mix as well, but as described, the minute the Africans go independent our syndicated interests block their good value add products - chocolate, from our markets. This kind of manipulation prevents Africans earning their worth and costs African nations billions yet we don't notice it because no one talks about it, and the icing on the cake is the massive deception - the wool pulled over the public's eyes, by the organised charities that cause the average haus frau to believe that she can save the silly little Africans from themselves by donating a dollar a day to "sponsor a child" or whatever. This is tantamount to stealing from the farmer all his harvest and then having the temerity to throw him some scraps from your dinner. Think about it. That's how it really is.