After the first three or four lines you will say, "Oh no! John is on his high horse, again!" As I sit and ponder the attitudes around us I marvel that we, as a nation are not further in the tank that we are today. Now, let me preface my remarks by saying that I realize that businesses and individuals only have a finite amount of discretionary time and money. I may wish it were not so, but, that is life.
Where am I going with this? Let me tell you, it is a Fix the Hurt issue. It deals with a long time sore subject and extremely constipated thinking. If I were a follower of the tightly bound, myopic thinking I would propose to the chief of police in e
very jurisdiction that we pull all of the patrol officers off the street and just wait until they get a call that a crime has been committed! Then respond. Why in the world cruise around trying to prevent crime? You cannot count the number of crimes that you prevented.
I would also propose that we stop all efforts to find a preventative cure for breast cancer and the myriad of other diseases that we spend money doing research on. Just wait until they contract the disease and try and treat them. That way you can count the number that you could not save. This way you cannot quantify the numbers that do not contract the disease from your efforts.
My big fear is that the closed minded, short sighted people will someday have the brilliant idea to overhaul the school system and decide that we do not need to do anything to prevent ignorance.
Okay, okay, I am talking about large corporations that have made the decision that they are only going to fund the service portion of the domestic violence efforts. What does that mean? It means they do not care a whit about whether a victim gets beaten or not. If they go to the shelter these mind bound folks will donate to that effort, but only about enough to take care of half of the victims. The rest will be turned away because of the lack of funds to care for as many as there are. When the victim is sorrowfully turned away by the angels at the shelter, they will either return to the home where they are abused and take the beating for leaving, or they will become homeless and that is another group of angels duty to care for.
Fix the Hurt is one of the few truly Domestic Violence Prevention groups around, because there are no funds to support that effort. Recently, we requested funds from Salt River Project and were quite rudely told that they only support service related efforts. This was not a real surprise, even though disappointing, that yet another community leader was had cranial constipation. We asked if they would consider allowing one of their people to serve on the Fix the Hurt Board of Directors. The hope was that we would get some expertise on the board which would be useful and, at the same time ,they would see the impact of the prevention programs. We were told just as rudely that they only suggested their people serve on the Boards of organizations they supported financially. So we decided they had classified us pond scum and tried yet another effort. We asked if they would make a small donation to the upcoming fund raiser of the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Again the answer was given just as rudely, “No they are an advocacy group and we do not donate to advocacy groups”. Woah!! You mean it as against corporate policy at Salt River Project to be an advocate for victims of Domestic Violence?
At this point the decision was made that this group was not for much of anything according to their spokes woman.
John says: "If you think there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody."
Where am I going with this? Let me tell you, it is a Fix the Hurt issue. It deals with a long time sore subject and extremely constipated thinking. If I were a follower of the tightly bound, myopic thinking I would propose to the chief of police in e
very jurisdiction that we pull all of the patrol officers off the street and just wait until they get a call that a crime has been committed! Then respond. Why in the world cruise around trying to prevent crime? You cannot count the number of crimes that you prevented.I would also propose that we stop all efforts to find a preventative cure for breast cancer and the myriad of other diseases that we spend money doing research on. Just wait until they contract the disease and try and treat them. That way you can count the number that you could not save. This way you cannot quantify the numbers that do not contract the disease from your efforts.
My big fear is that the closed minded, short sighted people will someday have the brilliant idea to overhaul the school system and decide that we do not need to do anything to prevent ignorance.
Okay, okay, I am talking about large corporations that have made the decision that they are only going to fund the service portion of the domestic violence efforts. What does that mean? It means they do not care a whit about whether a victim gets beaten or not. If they go to the shelter these mind bound folks will donate to that effort, but only about enough to take care of half of the victims. The rest will be turned away because of the lack of funds to care for as many as there are. When the victim is sorrowfully turned away by the angels at the shelter, they will either return to the home where they are abused and take the beating for leaving, or they will become homeless and that is another group of angels duty to care for.
Fix the Hurt is one of the few truly Domestic Violence Prevention groups around, because there are no funds to support that effort. Recently, we requested funds from Salt River Project and were quite rudely told that they only support service related efforts. This was not a real surprise, even though disappointing, that yet another community leader was had cranial constipation. We asked if they would consider allowing one of their people to serve on the Fix the Hurt Board of Directors. The hope was that we would get some expertise on the board which would be useful and, at the same time ,they would see the impact of the prevention programs. We were told just as rudely that they only suggested their people serve on the Boards of organizations they supported financially. So we decided they had classified us pond scum and tried yet another effort. We asked if they would make a small donation to the upcoming fund raiser of the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Again the answer was given just as rudely, “No they are an advocacy group and we do not donate to advocacy groups”. Woah!! You mean it as against corporate policy at Salt River Project to be an advocate for victims of Domestic Violence?
At this point the decision was made that this group was not for much of anything according to their spokes woman.
John says: "If you think there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody."
