Reply #40: This must-read eyewitness thread shows that the WORKERS AND

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VOLUNTEERS of Red Cross, the heart and soul of the organization, are still there, still working hard to save lives and give comfort despite the totally f**ked up management:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4856343
thread title: I have returned from my 10 day stint with Red Cross. (1st Impressions)

The management of the American Red Cross has been "Bushed" - stuffed with incompetent GOP political hacks that have damn near destroyed the organization's effectiveness and undermined the trust in it that it has long held with Americans. Their bungling and incompetence - and that is a euphemistic description - cost lives and untold trauma in the Katrina aftermath after they were entrusted with donations by thousands of Americans who expected them to deliver aid to the hurricane victims.

The management of American Red Cross must be reformed or mistrust and scandals will only grow and the country will lose what has been a great resource at the worst of times.