A tad concerning to some to discover that the Presidents Club will no longer be making donations to worthwhile charities. Not that childrens’ hospitals should in any way be treated as charities in the first place – this is not America, right? – but now the children will suffer now that the perverts and lechers of said club will no longer be getting drunk and lusting after women. But they don’t have to, do they?
I’m not sure about these fundraising evenings for rich people anyway and herein is the point. Your average Joe or Josephine doesn’t expect a charitable donation will also purchase a slap-up lunch. People give to charities, especially for sick children, because they want to make them better, or that they want to help pay for research to cure serious illnesses. The point is surely that if these rich men care so much about sick children, and anyone else who has been abandoned by the society in which we live, why not make a donation instead without expecting anything back?
This is the charity of Chris Evans and Children in Need, for example, whereby only the very rich can obtain otherwise unobtainable prizes by forking out vast sums of cash. It is charity supported by the have nots who seem to want something in exchange for their so called generosity. (I should add that Evans’ auctions do not require extreme sexist behaviour by dirty old rich men; just people with money to burn whose money is apparently worth more than that of regular folk.)
Every seen a sick or terminally ill child? My desire would be to help in whatever small way I could to help that child. I think that’s the reaction of all almost all of us. I am not sure why someone of means requires what is in effect payment for making a proportionate donation, in the case of the Presidents Club in order to grope and harass women. I don’t think Perverts for Sick Children has a particularly good ring to it.
The closure of said club need not mean anyone suffers or gets less by way of charitable donations. People can decide to give money for the sole reason of giving someone money. I’m a little old fashioned and firmly believe that sick children should be cared for by the state, through the exchequer. Sadly not everyone feels like that which is why we have charities. The Presidents Club is a charity, but not as we know it.
