LurkerMom: Charity begins at home, like the good ol’ USA

forbes.com - St jude childrens...

Well, had you bothered to look at the data from your own link, you would have discovered that while Tomorrow's Youth Organization received $3.3 million in government grant money to support over two hundred women entrepreneurs and dozens of women-led small businesses...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital received $164 million in US government funding.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital received $2.6 billion in private donations.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has Net Assets of $11.3 billion.

As the third largest US charity, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is the very definition of "charity begins at home" and good for them. But the suggestion that nothing should be spent beyond our borders as a tool of U.S. soft power, administering vital humanitarian aid worldwide each year, is silly, cruel, and shortsighted.