Ranty rant

[chickenfeet]

itchyfidget was ranting earlier about poppies and childrens' charities and such. I thought of hijacking her LJ for my rant but that didn't seem quite right so here is my own personal "charity rant".

I really resent getting slick mailshots from teaching hospital foundations. It's not just that the likes of the Hospital for Sick Children and the Princess Margaret Hospital are the best funded bits of the entire health system. It's not even that they consistently blackmail any government that demands any kind of accountability for the huge amounts of taxpayers' money they spend. I can even tolerate the 25% or so of the money raised that's going to end up paying for the president of the fund raising company's mansion in Rosedale. What I absolutely will not do is treat as a charity an organisation whose CEO "earns" $700,000 per year and has 97 VPs of administration, all making $300,000, but which wants all its nurses to be part time casual to save a few bucks. Give me a fucking break!