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To: sandintoes who wrote (631681)	9/23/2004 7:00:32 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yea UNICEF is still around. I remember the UN trying to make a good name with itself as early as I was in first grade. It was sold to us first graders as a way to help the starving first graders all over the world. Little did I know the UN was sucking up 80% of the money for its own pockets and only delivering 20% to the hungry.

To: sandintoes who wrote (631681)	9/23/2004 7:03:56 PM
From: jmhollen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Oh, I'm sure. I can remember carrying around one of their little collecting cans when we went trick-or-treating when I was a kid in the Canal Zone. As was said, you dropped them off at the Church - and it was never spoken of again until next year..... Where's "..Hairy BS Kerry.."?!? We need an accounting of all the funds garnered by this annual forced labor of children...!!! John :-) .

To: sandintoes who wrote (631681)	9/23/2004 8:51:55 PM
From: Kenneth V. McNutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

My son, very young at the time, insisted on donating to UNICEF. For the next several of years he was inundated with requests for donations from all over the world. Crosses on cheap little bracelets came from Peru, lucky coins from Madagascar, and you name it.. UNICEF sold his name as fast as they stole his money. We have never again given a dime to anything controlled by the UN. I now put the United Fund in the same category as under pressure from the gays they have ceased supporting the Boy Scouts and other organizations with religious attachment. The City of Ann Arbor, Michigan threatened to stop employee charity checkoff to the UA if they continued to support the BSA. UA caved and took them off the rolls. Some city in California refused to allow the Scouts to use a city park they have been utilizing for 50 years because the gays complained. So much for freedom of association and religion. KM KM