When my wife joined a local board for Habitat for Humanity, I argued against it since their mission is to take the people who would qualify for a loan at lowest acceptable level, and work with them to get into homes. My argument was those who could get into a house thru HFH could do so in the free market too, so why the charity?
When the housing boom came, who needed Habitat for Humanity when Washington Mutual would loan money to anyone who could fog a mirror. About this time Habitat for Humanity began taking government grants.
Once a charity begins to accept celebrity advocates and govt money, they get into trouble. Turns out, houses built by Jimmy Carter and other celebrities are falling apart.
In my lifetime Jimmy Carter has been my favorite president, what with him deregulating beer and travel and transport and telecommunications, which in time Reagan was able to take the credit (republicans never really deregulate, they just change who gets the money.)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Charity Is Hard To Do
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