Marc Cooper responds

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>At best, charities postpone societal questions about economic equality.
>At worst, charities serve as self-serving tax shields and allow
>right-wing ideologues like Newt Gingrich and Arianna Huffington to
>assault the "socialist" safety net while claiming that private charities
>will pick up the pieces. In the process the U.S. Treasury is robbed of
>dollars that could be put to entitlement programs. That is why I say
>that charity, as we know it, is nothing less than an attempt to justify
>capitalism's inherent injustices which makes it a euphemism for economic
>oppression.
>
>

Well said, Marta.  Cooper trying to make something of the Huff's charity
was a real disappointment.  This woman is cold-blooded.  Probably just put
compassion into the name of her charity so's she could hear herself say the
word.  I know I like the way she says it. Green Acres is one of my all time
favorite works of art.

In a huff-p