PBS: Are Americans a Stingy Lot of People?

[littlemissmartypants]

1. First let me say that I reject dystopia.

From the perspective of this piece, it appears we should all either jump ship or wait for the earth to open up and swallow us all. Although it is a fact, that the last rat on a sinking ship will cannibalize itself, we forget the strength of the human spirit is biologically predetermined and we're not extinct.

That said, two percent of nothing, is still nothing. When you can't make a living wage, can't afford transportation, much less the fuel and skip meals yourself to feed your children- the fact one stays alive enough, in one's own heart, to maintain the struggle is laudable.

We don't have a lack of monetary charity but a lack of charity of spirit, of empathy and a woefully shrinking supply of the milk of human kindness.

I suggest, we put a measurable value on those and do the research again.

Thanks for your post.

~ Lmsp