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Website design By BotEap.comGlobal problems like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple and clear answer. I have spoken out against American policy, the political system, the financial collapse of the markets and many other things, but sometimes there comes a time when we the people need to divert our attention from bear world and focus on TEA World.
Website design By BotEap.comThis day, TODAY, is one of those moments. Let our voices unite and speak a lot about our world, our real world and its children. It is by raising our voices, united, that we will be heard and the world will be forced to listen.
Website design By BotEap.comSome facts and tidbits about 2008:
Website design By BotEap.comPoverty and hunger run rampant in our world as we witnessed a monumental $1.8 trillion loss in a single day on the stock market. Our government has bailed out the banking industry with $700 BILLION dollars in taxes and is looking for more, while AIG executives and their “best salesmen” party at the fancy party. World governments now own portions of the banking industry, effectively nationalizing the financial system, and taxpayers around the world have allowed their governments to use BILLIONS of dollars, pounds, euros, and other currencies to fight a war in the Middle East.
Website design By BotEap.comMy point? We still live in a world where almost half of its population, more than three billion people, live on less than $2.50 a day and more than 26,500 children die every day. Every day. All year. The killers of our children, the children of our world, are poverty, hunger, and easily preventable disease and illness. What will you do today to help prevent this?
Website design By BotEap.comSir, can you give me a penny? Don’t respond with the standard “you can’t fix the problem by throwing money at it…” that’s okay, we know it’s complex and problems run deep. But maybe that penny isn’t hard currency, maybe it’s ten cents of your time. A moment worthy of you talking to someone else about the problem. What if everyone was talking about this at exactly the same time? Maybe your ten cents would be worth millions. Take a break. Talk to someone. You were given a voice for a reason, use it.
Website design By BotEap.comPoverty Facts: These are not talking points, not opinions, FACTS. Simple facts, hard, cold and oh so real. When you read my opening and look at all the money we have chased in less than 2 months, the FACT is that we are a money-centric, wasteful global society that takes advantage of those who have less and forgets those who can’t. Speak with the same volume and intensity as we can. We want our BMWs, Mercedes, and our 4,000+ square foot homes. We want gratification and satisfaction now and we don’t care what it takes. We like to think that what we do doesn’t impact anyone else. Continue this approach to our world and we may end up paying with more of our money.
Website design By BotEap.com26,500 children die every day at a staggering rate of one child every three seconds, more than 10 million children die each year. One of those children could have been the scientist who cures cancer, saves a nation, makes the impossible possible. One of those children could have been a friend. Each of those children were human beings attempting to inhabit the planet over which we have been given stewardship. Ask yourself: Am I a good steward of children? Take a break. Talk to someone. You were given a voice for a reason, use it. Statistics: At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
Website design By BotEap.comWorld. 2.2 million children die each year for not being vaccinated while the United States spends 8 BILLION dollars a year on Cosmetics, blush, lipstick, eyeliner, etc. every year. European countries and the United States combined spend $12 billion a year on perfume. It would take 9 billion to provide water and sanitation for EVERYONE.
Website design By BotEap.comThe list goes on. The world; The US, Europe, Japan and the rest spend enough on Perfume 4, Pet Food 4, Cigarettes 4 and Cosmetics 4 to provide Basic Education, Water and Sanitation and Basic Health and Nutrition to the WORLD and still have 3 BILLION left over . Talk Talk! Talk to someone. You have been given a voice for a reason, use it today.
Website design By BotEap.comYou can help by contacting UNICEF, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, your local Red Cross chapter, OXFAM and other global organizations dedicated to eliminating poverty and meeting the basic human needs of the world’s populations. Play Robin Hood – donate, let your voice be heard.