Originally Posted by Appowner

Ah! So not expressing appreciation makes me a hater?

You keep throwing up individual local events and claiming them to be the nationwide norm. I do not believe it is. While many, maybe even most clubs do some form of community service events. AMA membership trends would suggest it isn't working. Simple as that.

Believe it or not, your club doing something like that is NOT the AMA doing it. And your club doing it places it on such a small scale as to be invisible to the rest of the nation. And what's worse, by your own admission it's not your club but rather "a group of guys". No different than when I gave a bunch of cloths to the homeless on the streets of DC. Except my contribution was probably far more useful to the struggling than yours.

And if the family is truly struggling, why give them toys? Why not food or even a job? Something to give them a hand up. Maybe let them move into your house with you? Isn't your state going sanctuary state wide?