Over the years I have supported the Salvation Army - on the basis that I perceived it to be an organisation, whilst religiously based, which "rolled up its sleeves" and went about supporting everyone whatever their age, financial position, creed or religion. Having read this I will be directing my hard-earned money to an organisation which does not discriminate. It would be interesting to know what the position of the Oz Salvation Army is.
Only a gigantic bureaucracy could get away with spending of such dimensions - and the amazing waste involved in part of that ginormous spend. Think US Pentagon..... "From spending $150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in Afghanistan to blowing $2.7 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesn’t work, the latest revelations of waste at the Pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades. Other hot-off-the-presses examples would include the Army’s purchase of helicopter gears worth $500 each for $8,000 each and the accumulation of billions of dollars' worth of weapons components that will never be used. And then there’s the one that would have to be everyone’s favorite Pentagon waste story: the spending of $50,000 to investigate the bomb-detecting capabilities of African elephants. (And here’s a shock: they didn’t turn out to be that great!) The elephant research, of course, represe...
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And I agree, no more Salvation Army 'saving'...