Now shoppers could be asked to make donations to Charity each time they use their plastic!

Hi James. As mentioned in another post by Beth.....how many of the 'administrators' get paid too much, and should they get paid at all? I wonder how much they contribute? I am irritated to say the least as I see request after request on the television for our money, everybody is after it! Dogs homes, cats homes, save the donkeys, seals, tigers in wherever, you name it, disgraceful...

Charity begins at home so why not start looking after our own kids for a kick off via the NSPCC, the Lifeboats, the Blind, the British Heart Foundation, Scope and many other good causes that need help who are not being helped by the constant begging! Grrrrrrrrh!!

I do hope that when shoppers are asked if they wish to donate to a community charity when they use their plastic cards, that there is protection given so they are not automatically charged a certain percentage of their total purchase bill that will automatically go to this 'charity fund' and thus they won't find out this has been done UNTIL they get their plastic card bill or statement etc etc. Shops of any kind should not be given permission to automatically assume that the purchaser would give an additional percentage or give a set amount towards the charity( especially without permission) and the shops have no right to justify this practice by stating....well the customer did agree to donate this amount at the time of purchase, however, must have changed their mind or forgot they did agree to the donation purchase amount.

Think I need to get off my soapbox on this issue....lol....am done squawing about it...LOL....

They should be sued if they do that Beth...that is like receiving no goods for the purchase. People are starting to do that over here and the days of doing such things against an person knowlege or "choice" is coming to an close with an great many others help, that includes the kids recently formed their own group of protestors and marched down the street over the police shooting down an homeless person recenty. They apparently don' t buy the fact they said they tried to tazer gun him and it didn't' work so they shot him to death there after...he was weiding an large kitchen type knife. People don't harbor knives unless they feel threatened by society to begin with. I wonder why he was "homeless" to begin with also. Maybe his family was lousy to begin with?

I am looking an several Jewerly store burglaries here recently...of course in the back fo my mind is the woner not selling enough merchandise to stay open so he had it robbed and as strange as that sonds they found an group of kids did just exactly that to keep some teen specialty clothing stores operating. If the jewerly stores are not maknig money...why don't they make their own "gold" amulet jewerly to sell in upper arm bands for about $20 each...in fact the whole jewerly business needs to get on this and make thier own source of "banking"... selling and redeeming the amluets for $20. Kind of like we use to do as kids in those "postage stamps" that when you bought enough of them at school, you could turn it in for an U. S. Savings bond eventually... that was guaranteed to increase to the face amount after 8 years of holding it...and more in interest if you hung on to them through time. These are the things that help at public level to help the country prosper. Our leaders are sooooo greedy they can't think beyond themselves most the time. That's what causes them to fail also.