PORTRAIT OF A COFFEE HOUSE: People engage in conversation, for it is there that news is communicated and where those interested in politics criticize the government in all freedom and without being fearful, since the government does not heed what the people say. {Jean Chardin, 17th Century French Traveller}

19 August 2010

DC Central Kitchen replies to Rush Limbaugh

Last week, Rush Limbaugh, scientific name ignoramus extraordinaire, was quoted in making the following comments about non-profit organizations on his show:
Bunch of lazy idiots, many of them don't want to really work. Non-profits! Siphon contributions as their salaries and so forth and think of themsleves as good people, charitable people! I mean these people are rapists in terms of finance and economy. The private sector, the financial sector is being raped, plundered, whatever!
Robert Egger, founder of the DC Central Kitchen, an organization established to provide job training, fight poverty, homelessness, and hunger, created the following video in response to Limbaugh:





Up yours, Limbaugh!

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