I’m going to get on my soap-box, so bare with me. I just love these non-profit organizations that want you the TV-viewer to send your money to some poor children who are starving in some poor country. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t hesitate to send money to them, but I think these non-profit organizations need to ask us the television viewer to send our money to help feed the children and families who are starving right here in the United States, everyday hundreds of children, women and men go hungry and there aren’t enough soup kitchens and there isn’t enough money in these soup kitchens to feed everyone 3 times a day, 7 days a week, or 365 days a year.
And one of the many reasons these families go hungry in the United States is because of companies like the Big 3 automakers, and K-Mart, JC Penny, Sears and yes—even Walmart who outsource the products they make to poor countries where the labor is cheap! And we as a society in general need to stop expecting to payless for better quality merchandize. We want more for less and yet we still expect people to perform work for less pay and yet at the same time don't seem to mind if College baseball, football and basketball players demand huge-huge-large amounts of money in order to play a game and to entertain us. I think it's ridicious to pay someone 10 million dollars just to entertain us in a game of football, basketball, baseball, or even golf. Even though Michael Phelps did not initally receive any money in order to perform as well as he did in the Olympics--he did recieve huge amounts of money in endorsements after he won his gold medals and look at what has happened to him. The same could be said for CEO's, Presidents, Executives who receive big salaries on top of the big bonus' they receive for either saving the company money or by saving investors money and by keeping stocks from dropping. Believe me if I were hired by AIG today to be there CEO and I had the qualifications to do the job--I would do it for a lot less than the one currently employed by AIG--I would be happy to have the job and do it for about million salary, but then of course there comes the taxes one has to pay for having that high paying job and I'm not sure I would want to make that much money.
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I agree with you! We are constantly focused on how we can help other countries to make ourselves feel better about ourselves, when people in our own country are starving and in much need of our help too. Before we go looking in other's backyards, we need to first look in ours. We will realize we don't need to go very far to help someone.
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