really?

abridged from a related discussion. names removed because:

"When funds aren't there, everyone needs to cut spending to fit available resources. Households have to do it. Companies have to do it. Cities and states have to do it...

For those of you who are concerned, thank you for your suggestions and letters. However, the most valuable letters you can write are the ones that you address to [an entity] and enclose large checks. If you valued the experience and gained through it, YOU dig deep."

me again

How interesting. This response to the people who raised their voices fails utterly to acknowledge that the very work they want to preserve and the very work that they themselves have taken on, does not enable them to dig deep. They earn no real money to speak of. They're speaking out exactly because the work needs doing; giving them the wherewithal to learn how to do it is the point of the entire exercise. Telling them to give money, condescending to them as if they don't understand how the world works is exactly not what's called for.

Mean spirited is the tip of that particular iceberg.