I watched part of this documentary about how second-hand clothes from the US end up in Africa. Apparently the Salvation Army doesn’t even unpack most of their clothing donations, they SELL them to dealers in Africa who mark them up 400%. This industry has put almost all of the domestic clothing manufacturing out of business and a lot of people who had those skills are out of jobs, many of them gone from hand-making traditional clothing to selling second-hand US clothes at markets. Would people still donate to the Salvation Army if they knew what they were really doing?
Not to mention the whole “we don’t hire gays” policy but that’s another story …
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What Do You Think Of The Salvation Army’s Dirty Little Secret?
Posted on November 26, 2010.
Which is why I pay by credit card so that I don’t carry cash into or out of the stores where they ring their little bells.
What’s so dirty about them making money selling clothes which they then use to run free soup kitchens?
It sounds just like the job killing government taxation and welfare programs that liberals always applaud, they should be all for it.
And liberals do far more harm to gays then anyone else simply by constantly using homophobic epithets like “teabaggers’.
Typical liberal insincere hypocrisy
Meh – if you dig into almost any organized religion you find a skeleton or two. So sing along everybody….
Not only am I appalled at this, they might even jack up the prices of their cookies :O *screams*
ruh roh…. >:(
Actually, I worked for a summer as a camp counselor with the Salvation Army. One of my fellow counselors was gay. However I’m sure that the captain didn’t know that when she was hired and for most of the summer she kept it a secret.
I shudder at the thought.