Instead Buying of Braclets, Why Not Just Pay Your Taxes?
Yellow Braclets. Pink Braclets. Red Braclets. Blue Braclets. They all mean something to some charity or another raising money for research for one or more diseases. The Times is of course well ahead of the curve reporting on the phenomenon.
The Lance Armstrong Livestrong bracelets are approaching sales of 30 million. Hopefully that means close to $30M is on its way to fight cancer. Target has contributed $600,000 to breast cancer research through its pink bracelet.
Since all these charity bracelets are little more than a band of rubber, they are by no means providing the buyer with any kind of service--other than looking cool. All these sales are some form of disposable income for people, but in really small amounts.
While the money raised by the sale of these bracelets are all going to good causes, wouldn't it just make more sense to as a society make the decision to find a cure for cancer and dedicate the resources of the federal government to solve the problem?
When the United States built the atomic bomb, many people thought it was physically not even a realistic goal. Yet, in a little over two years, the project dropped a bomb on the Japanese people. But we still have cancer.
Our elected leaders need to stop prancing around in little yellow bracelets and make a real committment to stomping out these diseases.
The Lance Armstrong Livestrong bracelets are approaching sales of 30 million. Hopefully that means close to $30M is on its way to fight cancer. Target has contributed $600,000 to breast cancer research through its pink bracelet.
Since all these charity bracelets are little more than a band of rubber, they are by no means providing the buyer with any kind of service--other than looking cool. All these sales are some form of disposable income for people, but in really small amounts.
While the money raised by the sale of these bracelets are all going to good causes, wouldn't it just make more sense to as a society make the decision to find a cure for cancer and dedicate the resources of the federal government to solve the problem?
When the United States built the atomic bomb, many people thought it was physically not even a realistic goal. Yet, in a little over two years, the project dropped a bomb on the Japanese people. But we still have cancer.
Our elected leaders need to stop prancing around in little yellow bracelets and make a real committment to stomping out these diseases.
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