I get CNN alerts to my e-mail both on job related items as well as breaking news. I am occasionally stunned at the way people act, but I can usually pull myself away from the situation and rationalize why people act the way they do. Yesterday I received a breaking news story that I cannot stop clicking on. The headline reads "U.N.: Poor countries could pay 40 percent more for food."A 40% increase?? We are complaining about gas prices that have risen, and that only fuels our cars.The article goes on to say that:
"'Food is no longer the cheap commodity that it once was," FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem said. 'Rising food prices are bound to worsen the already unacceptable level of food deprivation suffered by 854 million people.'
'We are facing the risk that the number of hungry will increase by many more millions of people.'"
Even though Bush donated over 200 million dollars to the crisis last year, that is a drop in the bucket compared to how much we have spent on the war. Not to mention that is the same amount of money Iron Man raked in last weekend. Are we really becoming that ignorant and selfish in America, my sad response would be, honestly, yes. When a Hollywood action film about a man clad in an iron suit means more to us than MILLIONS of people without basic necessities such as food it should force us to have some self reflection on our priorities and obligations to the global community.Just a thought.
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