However, AER's management says it hasn't felt a need to boost giving in recent years. "I don't necessarily think the need is any different than it was four or five years ago," says Spiegel.Because it's not like there's a financial crisis going on that might be affecting military families, and there're certainly no families with injured ex-soldiers who might need financial help, and we all know that scholarships are a dime a dozen just right now... Oh, wait, you mean that's not true? WTF are they waiting on giving out that money for?