Gifts and Donations

 

If you are like me, then you watch television during the day or early evening.  Whether you watch programs from cable or a dish or via a ROKU, you probably are inundated with commercials.  

While these commercials are necessary to sell products that grow our economy, they also put the viewer inside an uncomfortable point of view, not really knowing what to do...  that is to say, how to spend your money.

For me, the commercials that stick in my mind are the ones that ask us to make donations.  We can donate our money to disabled veterans or children with cancer or animals that have been abandoned or treated cruelly.

It seems like to me that humans are more important than animals and that children are more important than veterans...  but for some, the decision is not that simple.  They struggle and anguish with their decision.

Additionally, the country is deeply embedded in a structural inflation process that does not seem to be lessening anytime soon.  We are struggling with our money just to keep our heads above water.  So, begging us to contribute is just another way to make Americans feel bad about themselves.

In addition to this, we are being asked to contribute to RUSSIAN JEWS who are starving.  So, forget the problems that we have in this country, let's give are hard earned money to someone outside of this country...  that makes a lot of sense.   And, if we do not then we are labeled as not very religious.

I understand that commercials are important, and I would also agree that charitable gifts and donations are important as well... but, no one takes into consideration the negative mental impact that this pressure has on the VIEWER - especially if that viewer is ELDERLY.