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Whenever the Democrats are in power, charities suffer.
It makes perfect sense.
If you know the government is coming after your hard-earned income, anyway, you naturally tighten the pursestrings.

It's unfortunate, because I've always preferred to donate directly, as much as I could, knowing that by direct donation, it wasn't going to be stolen by some bureaucratic political appointee, or wasted on some nonsensical social engineering.

Mike Whateveryourlastnameis, Some of us like to follow democratic traditions of voting for our representatives, deciding social priorities, and improving things for all of us. Sort of like we do when we need to fight wars, provide police protection, and allocate water rights. Or, are those things nonsensical social engineering, just wrought on a bigger scale?

Nice smug, elitist attitude you have there.
One of two main reasons I quit the party.
Guess I'll just cling to God and guns and leave the important stuff to Der Master Race.

the missoula food bank was founded in 1983, as a private charity, Mike. just like a lot of private charities that were formed during the presidency of Ronald Reagan who wanted to see private enterprise rather than "government" take care of our most needful citizens. He felt that they would be more efficient....and donations are very welcome.

Mike: If you think failed GOP economic policies (God I hope Reaganomics will finally die once and for all) aren't a primary reason for the added strain increasing clientèle are putting on social service organizations like the Food Bank and Pov, you're living a vacuum. Here are a few facts for you and your reality-challenged ilk:

GDP growth since WWII:
Dem presidents: 4.4%
GOP presidents: 2.6%

Employment growth:
Dem presidents: 3%
GOP presidents: 1.3%

Unemployment rate:
Dems: -1.9%
GOP: 1%

Stock market growth:
Dems: 4.7% annualized (even higher if you remove WWII)
GOP: 2.9%

There's a lot more where this came from, but I think these numbers should suffice. Hardship has nothing or little to do with taxation. It's likely that GOP tax policy has never benefited 99% of the donors to the Food Bank anyhow.

Nope. Sorry.
I don't know where you get your numbers, but they're meaningless. Sounds like politically-slanted GAO or Brookings agitprop to me.
Macroeconomic processes are not instantaneous. The vast improvements brought by Reagan's policies didn't come to fruition during his tenure, so the intent of those numbers is sophistry. And trying to attribute a trend based on a few percentage points over the course of decades is just bad math.

As I said before, the smug elitists of Der Master Race don't tolerate the slightest deviation from their National Socialist edicts, so I am signing off permanently.

Enjoy your delusional state and keep preaching to the choir.

So Mike, did those vast improvements come to fruition during Bush 41's presidency? I seem to remember Clinton inheriting a recession.

Also, it's hard to call something like annualized GDP growth agitprop--the Office of National Statistics doesn't lie on behalf of partisan groups, nor do organizations like the NYSE.