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'I was killing myself': San Francisco program giving alcohol to addicts may save lives
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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I'd read somewhere that this program averaged over $300,000 per supported-addict per year, of taxpayer cost.
Having tried participating in "charities" before, I find that number ABSOLUTELY BELIEVABLE.
The US's United Way pours millions of donated-dollars into the personal-wallowing-wealth of its executives.
It will be a "fine, pleasant, moderate, & reasonable" day in hell, before I'll believe that the category "not for profits" is any less corrupt than the other categories ( for-profit operations, governments ).
I hope it was wrong information I saw, disinformation, rather than truth/fact, but .. no "charity" that I've every tangled with would tolerate limiting administration's wealth for sake of honesty.
None.
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Not-for-profits just means they are less corrupt. (Doesn’t stop them from being very corrupt).