Poverty...it's not sexy

[sabrina 1]

46. Very good post and you sound like a wonderful person.

I know that there are parts or the world where the poverty is killing children, such as Afghanistan eg. Parents are selling their children to wealthy people to protect them from dying. Many die anyhow, it is a tragic situation. Imagine if we had spent all that war money on the people there, how much more effective it would have been for us and for them.

As for pushing the homeless out because of the Olympics, that happened in NYC also, under Giuliani, that time so that his rich friends wouldn't have to see them as he 'cleaned up the city'.

What is so sad is that what we spend on wars could probably take care of the entire world's hungry people but there is little incentive in this country to do that.

I don't blame you for leaving when Bush was installed in the WH. Many of us would have done so too if we could have.

Thanks for your post, sorry if I came across as being angry, but we are very used to the Right here attempting to diminish the poverty and inequality here. That was no excuse though for me to react the way I did. I agree with what you say.