Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Curves
Gary Heavin[Founder of Curves] is far from the first successful businessman to underwrite reproductive causes — Tom Monaghan of Domino's Pizza and Carl Karcher, founder of the California-based hamburger chain Carl's Jr., have been very open and public regarding their support of the pro-life philosophy, just as Warren Buffett, ranked by Forbes magazine as the second-richest man in the world, has been forthcoming about his backing of pro-choice programs. In each instance, these men are acting as private citizens who choose to bestow parts of their fortunes on the causes they believe in, not as officers of their corporations. The money is theirs to do with as they please, just as anyone's paycheck belongs to the person who earns it and stops being the employer's money at the moment it is paid out. That a spendthrift employee might choose to gamble away his earnings doesn't mean the company he works for supports gambling; likewise, that a wealthy man financially supports particular causes doesn't mean the corporation that paid him the money favors those movements.
All this is by way of saying that while it's correct to identify Gary Heavin as a patron of pro-life endeavors, it would not be right to point to Curves as a supporter of those same causes.
--- excerpt from Barbara "cause and effect" Mikkelson at Snopes.com
However, knowing where the money's going makes me less likely to put more into the coffers. As money is power (hell, it's practically God these days), it is our business what billionaires are doing with it, private or not. A Curves employee's paycheck is hardly capable of making or breaking an entire cause or people. When you have varying amounts of money (read: control of a percentage of humanity's resources), you have varying amounts of responsibility and yes, I believe you are to be held accountable.
Bottom line, I don't think I'll be going to Curves anytime soon.
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