Wildfires are a scary thing, seen the front lines of a few in my lifetime, most recently from the black Saturday fires back in 2010. /edit Kinglake still isn't back together fully, hope all funds raised help them rebuild to where they were.
I believe what would say more to the kaw community is if "ata CEO will match all money spent on crystals for this relief" then a government that already is obligated to spend what the country needs to help this disaster
Unfortunately we don't know how much the CEO of ata earns, he may earn much less than will get spent.
The Japan tsunami appeal, the players raised 33k, ata matched some and it went to 50k. You think the CEO of ata makes 33k a day? FYI. That's 12MILLION a year.
On the other hand... Are you telling me that if ata didn't send these donations from us, then they would not receive these funds from the government??
Bottom part of this whole thread " the federal government will match all funds raised" ... REALLY you will fund your own relief
Well, yeah they probably would, but that's not the point really. Politically speaking it makes them LOOK good, costs them less money and the humanitarian effect of giving to a tragic cause is extremely good on a society.
Well said there Rio "politically speaking"... And the part " this hits close to home" was a nice effect also
If you don't like it or don't agree with what ATA is doing then don't buy any xtals. Stop derailing this thread. Thanks.
Politically speaking was aimed at the federal government. Which is what I thought you were talking about, now I realise your being unsupportive of ATA. Hits close to home, ATA may have staff that are affected by this, or staff families that are, it is in the same country, less than 1k miles away.