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steeljack · 26-01-2010, 01:08

Was surprised tonight while watching an interview with a member of "Doctors without Borders", up to now I had allways thought these guys were the best for being there when help was needed as opposed to the ones where you can "buy a black baby for a month" . Bearing in mind the old adage "anyone who works for nowt is a thief" I allways thought these medics were using paid vacation and paid leave time to do their good works , not so...seems some of them are full time employees on a payroll ... ok I think no problem , no employer is going to give someone 3 or 4 months off regular work to do good works and if someone wants to take a gap year off from regular employment and do good stuff.. good on them ...... But , according to the interview I watched to-night the representative for 'Doctors without Borders' said that in many of the countries where they work many long term employees are required by the host country to pay local income taxes to the local Govt.
Understand that legit charities want to do good work but to me this is nothing more than blackmail by corrupt third world sleazeballs and needs looking into by doner Govts.

26-01-2010, 01:08	#1
steeljack God Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SF/ Bay Area California Posts: 4,002 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 1338	more openness needed for overseas charities Was surprised tonight while watching an interview with a member of "Doctors without Borders", up to now I had allways thought these guys were the best for being there when help was needed as opposed to the ones where you can "buy a black baby for a month" . Bearing in mind the old adage "anyone who works for nowt is a thief" I allways thought these medics were using paid vacation and paid leave time to do their good works , not so...seems some of them are full time employees on a payroll ... ok I think no problem , no employer is going to give someone 3 or 4 months off regular work to do good works and if someone wants to take a gap year off from regular employment and do good stuff.. good on them ...... But , according to the interview I watched to-night the representative for 'Doctors without Borders' said that in many of the countries where they work many long term employees are required by the host country to pay local income taxes to the local Govt. Understand that legit charities want to do good work but to me this is nothing more than blackmail by corrupt third world sleazeballs and needs looking into by doner Govts.