Where do all these Toys for Tots Go??

[Tmy]

Everywhere you turn around theres another toy drive. And they seem to do pretty well. The Marines have that big ol Toys for Tots thing. What I want to know is where do these toys end up?? How does one get these toys.

Let be be the Grinch here. Im thinking these "poor" folks are really raking it in for Xmas. Come on, whos really so poor that they cant afford a $20 toy for the brat. They have kids, so even the poorest will qualify for state aid.


Kids today, there so spolied that you have to back up the FAO Swatrz truck in order to impress them. Why BACK IN MY DAY you got that one toy, and you were happy to get it!!!

BAH HUMBUG!

[BTox]

Was that supposed to be funny? Poor taste...

[rikzilla]

Ummm...to the Tots?


I doubt the Marine Corps is keeping 'em all...!? But you never know do ya?

Here, take a sip of the milk of human kindness...now go F yourself!

Have a Merry $-mas!

-z

[kerfer]

Originally posted by Tmy
The Marines have that big ol Toys for Tots thing. What I want to know is where do these toys end up?? How does one get these toys.


Perhaps you could call them, and volunteer to help wrap and distribute the toys. That may answer your questions!

[Tmy]

BAH!!!! Id rather invent ellaborate conspiricys where Fraudy McFraud tricks and unchecked system into giving him hundreds of dollars worth of toys that he returns for cash in order to buy trendy holiday microbrew sampler cases of beer that he gets drunk off while scrathing lottery tickets.


Hmmmm..........gives me an idea.

[Luke T.]

Toys For Tots is one of the best charities going. You don't give them money, you give them the actual toys. They aren't going to sell them to some used toy store.

Despite being a retired Navy man myself, and having a natural distemper toward Marines, I must say they are A-OK on this one.

The toys go to local children's hospitals, orphanages, poor families, and so on. Believe me, these toys end up in a kid's hands.

I was a CPO. We had toy drives of our own at every Naval Base I was stationed. And we'd be bringing our toys we had collected through our own organization to a children's hospital and handing them out to the kids, and there would be the Marines doing the same thing. We and the Marines would get competitive. We would all rush into some poor sick kids room, drop a mountain of toys onto his bed, and rush out to get to the next room before the kid knew what was happening. Blitz krieg...

The absolute best feeling in the world. Chokes me up now just recalling it.

[Luke T.]

I just wanted to add that the toys aren't handed out to kids just at Christmas. One children's hospital we went to had a special storage room just for toys that they handed out to kids year round.

[Tmy]

Originally posted by Luke T.
We and the Marines would get competitive. We would all rush into some poor sick kids room, drop a mountain of toys onto his bed, and rush out to get to the next room before the kid knew what was happening. Blitz krieg...



So potentially the richest kid in town can have a pile of free toys dummped on him.

Dont mind me being an A-hole, Im planning on setting up to a whole welfare/foodstamp tie where I hope to snare some conservatives into my evil logic trap!

[Luke T.]

Originally posted by Tmy



So potentially the richest kid in town can have a pile of free toys dummped on him.


That's right. We didn't discriminate against sick rich kids with cancer.

[Samus]

Originally posted by Tmy
Dont mind me being an A-hole, Im planning on setting up to a whole welfare/foodstamp tie where I hope to snare some conservatives into my evil logic trap! I'd love to see the correlation between complaining about Toys for Tots and welfare. Go for it. Bamboozle me with your logic.

[Tmy]

Originally posted by Luke T.


That's right. We didn't discriminate against sick rich kids with cancer.

HOW DARE YOU!!!:p


Seriously though. Remember the big flap over 911 donations when the Salvation Army (or was it Red Cross) was putting some of the money aside for other disasters. People thought all the money should go specifically to 911 cause thats wht they dontated.

What if the story got out that these toys that are earmarked forthe poor at Xmas was also being given to billionaire cancer kids throughout the year! GASP!!! OUTRAGE!!!!!


Commander,

Hmmm I'm still working on the welfare thingy. I was thinking alongthe lines of 'why bitch n moan aboutthe foodstamp program, its just getting food to hungry people."... Hmm needs more of a hook. Any suggestions?

[Luke T.]

Originally posted by Tmy


HOW DARE YOU!!!:p


Seriously though. Remember the big flap over 911 donations when the Salvation Army (or was it Red Cross) was putting some of the money aside for other disasters. People thought all the money should go specifically to 911 cause thats wht they dontated.

What if the story got out that these toys that are earmarked forthe poor at Xmas was also being given to billionaire cancer kids throughout the year! GASP!!! OUTRAGE!!!!!

I would like to know what kind of creature would be outraged a Toy For Tots donation went to a sick kid in July. :)


Hmmm I'm still working on the welfare thingy. I was thinking alongthe lines of 'why bitch n moan aboutthe foodstamp program, its just getting food to hungry people."... Hmm needs more of a hook. Any suggestions?

That's a different topic, but what the heck, I'll give it a shot. Since I am a conservative, allow me to some ammunition.

Some people who receive food stamps abuse the system. They sell them for cash to buy beer. They enroll under several names and drive a Rolls Royce (I'm being facetious, but you know what I mean), or they are just lazy and won't go get a job. And then there is the whole third generation thing of people on welfare. A certain "the government owes me" attitude that develops as a result.

Conservatives don't think everyone receiving food stamps are guilty of these things. Just enough to make a serious impact on federal and state budgets.


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[Tmy]

AH HA!!! Foolish Luke, I now have you in my liberal clutches!

You cant sell food stamps for beer. Not with the new EBT systems that act like a debit card for food purchaces. The most you could do is barter food items for beer. Either way you getting food to hungry people, even with the fraud! Its win/win!!!


For my next trick I will convince you that Toys for Tots, much like Midnight Basketball and Head Start, are nothing more than evil liberal breeding grounds of waste!!!!:p

[T'ai Chi]

Originally posted by Tmy
Come on, whos really so poor that they cant afford a $20 toy for the brat.


Uh, a lot of people are.

[Samus]

Originally posted by Tmy
Hmmm I'm still working on the welfare thingy. I was thinking alongthe lines of 'why bitch n moan aboutthe foodstamp program, its just getting food to hungry people."... Hmm needs more of a hook. Any suggestions? Donating toys for the TfT program is entirely optional. Allowing your tax dollars to go towards food stamp programs is not. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Originally posted by Tmy
You cant sell food stamps for beer. Not with the new EBT systems that act like a debit card for food purchaces. The most you could do is barter food items for beer. Either way you getting food to hungry people, even with the fraud! Its win/win!!! Is this true nationwide? I don't know much about the actual implementation of the program. If so, then it is a step in the right direction. Although, we still have the problem of poor people staying poor and raising kids who will be poor, because they don't know any better. But food debit cards won't be solving that problem any time soon.