Religious folks on TV are horrid when it comes to not spending the money people pledge to a cause. Heck even groups that say they help police or fire fighters are often shams in my view.

But to not spend 90% of the money to actually help the wounded vets or their families/children should be a crime!!!

@BulletMagnetEd…

I’ve re-written this three times to tone it down, but I keep coming to the same conclusions. Any time someone panders to your ego (i.e. letting you lie to yourself that you are spending money on the troops when you are really going for your own entertainment) you should beware. That more people don’t know this is a sad testament to our culture. That people who claim to care are exploiting this is a sad testament to human nature itself.

1. “Hannity makes it 100% clear that he brings his whole family around the country with him as well as friends to the Freedom Concerts, so you can drop that argument.”

What he doesn’t make clear is that he is doing so at the cost to the charity of expensive hotel suites, a fleet of cars, etc. If Hannity wants to bring his family, that’s very nice. But when he does so at the expense of the non-profit – and the soldiers who are suppose to be getting the help from that non-profit- not so nice. If I give money to a charity, I want it to go to the intended beneficiaries, not some wealthy promoter’s family. You?

2. “Have u ever run a business?”

I guess if running a very successful NYSE business- which recently sold for $5 billion counts as running a business, yeah…I’ve run a business.

3. “The FACT is that 12% is a great profit margin and the FACT is that sometimes businesses only run profits of 4 to 7%.”

The FACT is you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about – so much so, that you are embarrasing even your co-Hannity fans.

This is NOT a business operating for profit. This is a non-profit charitable venture.

The rule of thumb for non-profits (and, yeah, sorry but I know a little something about this), is that if they are not delivering 75% of their income to the stated beneficiaries of the charity, they are a dismal failure. to be fair, there are variations on that – and some years are better than others – but, in nobody’s definition of a reasonably acceptable 501(c)(3) company is 12% in the same universe as acceptable.

“Don’t you realize that these “donations” are concert tickets? These people are paying for a concert and when all expenses are covered, the PROFIT goes to the charity.”

Tell you what. Don’t take my word for it. READ WHAT IS PRINTED ON THE TICKETS. Read where the concert promoters say the money is going and how much of it is going there. If it works for you, give them all the money you like. As for those actually want to support our troops – and not Sean Hannity’s scam – I think they’ve pretty much figured out the real deal here.

You know, I really don’t care how Hannity spends his time and efforts. What I do care about is anyone who pretends to be helping our troops instead of actually helping our troops. If supporting Sean Hannity – or anyone else- is more important to you than seeing money go to real charities who are really doing serious work for our injured troops and their families, then knock yourself out. But don’t pretend you give a crap about the troops when you are unwilling to know the facts and understand what you’re talking about.