I had to edit some of this. Honestly, I should not write posts at 2 AM! I made a dog's dinner of this!
I wanted to do music but just could not. READ all about it here. These people were dressed up so well! Actually, beautifully might be a better word to describe their costumes. I mean, maybe it was the tiny fake weapons at the wrists? This was a heads up from the excellent Elle.
I watched two interesting and disturbing Documentaries today. I want to encourage anyone who hasn't seen them to take the time to do so.
One is about hungry American children, and some of the reasons this is happening in our country. The political maneuvering by lobbyists on behalf of rich farmers is a sin. Yes, I would classify it as such. It's called, A Place at the Table. This film is about the 50 million Americans who are going hungry in our land of plenty. The link goes to NPR.
If you haven't seen this film it will really open your eyes a little wider. How can this be going on in our country? Why is it happening? The documentary tries to tell the why's and wherefores of this tragedy as it was played out over the last half century. Since I'm so old I do remember most of what was done when our government created the WIC program and the reasons for it. We almost wiped out hunger in America with this one program.
I was enraged that so many Americans, many of them children, should be going hungry, again, in a country that has an abundance of food, and in which most of the farm subsidies go to those who are growing food for export or bio-fuels. It made me ashamed. As Jeff Bridges comments, "Charity is a wonderful thing but we wouldn't count on Charity to run our Defense Department now would we?"
The second documentary is The One Percent. Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune has made a follow up documentary, now getting a lot more play than it did in 2006, about the wealthiest Americans and the gap between them and the rest of us, but especially the poorest of the rest of us.
In The One Percent, Johnson shows an interview with the Mayor of New Orleans talking about how long it took for a response from Washington, saying in the end of his talk that we needed to make sure that all Americans had a chance to have "a place at the table." In this same segment, we are treated to then President Bush delighting a group of obviously well off people by saying that he was there to make sure that so and so's beach house got rebuilt bigger and better than it was even before the storm. I'd never seen this bit of film and thought it a very telling remark from this clueless man.
I'm sick of the sorts of persons who are always trying to label the programs to help our people "Socialism" . These are Common Sense programs that help people who fall behind for any number of reasons not related to their Character. It just makes sense to feed people who are in need, but especially children who are truly helpless to help themselves.
Ok I'm done, and it's nearly 2 AM. But maybe now that I've gotten this off my chest, I can get to sleep! The very idea of not feeding the hungry people and especially the Children is repulsive! Selfish to the core! What fool thought that up?
I wanted to do music but just could not. READ all about it here. These people were dressed up so well! Actually, beautifully might be a better word to describe their costumes. I mean, maybe it was the tiny fake weapons at the wrists? This was a heads up from the excellent Elle.
I watched two interesting and disturbing Documentaries today. I want to encourage anyone who hasn't seen them to take the time to do so.
One is about hungry American children, and some of the reasons this is happening in our country. The political maneuvering by lobbyists on behalf of rich farmers is a sin. Yes, I would classify it as such. It's called, A Place at the Table. This film is about the 50 million Americans who are going hungry in our land of plenty. The link goes to NPR.
If you haven't seen this film it will really open your eyes a little wider. How can this be going on in our country? Why is it happening? The documentary tries to tell the why's and wherefores of this tragedy as it was played out over the last half century. Since I'm so old I do remember most of what was done when our government created the WIC program and the reasons for it. We almost wiped out hunger in America with this one program.
I was enraged that so many Americans, many of them children, should be going hungry, again, in a country that has an abundance of food, and in which most of the farm subsidies go to those who are growing food for export or bio-fuels. It made me ashamed. As Jeff Bridges comments, "Charity is a wonderful thing but we wouldn't count on Charity to run our Defense Department now would we?"
The second documentary is The One Percent. Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune has made a follow up documentary, now getting a lot more play than it did in 2006, about the wealthiest Americans and the gap between them and the rest of us, but especially the poorest of the rest of us.
In The One Percent, Johnson shows an interview with the Mayor of New Orleans talking about how long it took for a response from Washington, saying in the end of his talk that we needed to make sure that all Americans had a chance to have "a place at the table." In this same segment, we are treated to then President Bush delighting a group of obviously well off people by saying that he was there to make sure that so and so's beach house got rebuilt bigger and better than it was even before the storm. I'd never seen this bit of film and thought it a very telling remark from this clueless man.
I'm sick of the sorts of persons who are always trying to label the programs to help our people "Socialism" . These are Common Sense programs that help people who fall behind for any number of reasons not related to their Character. It just makes sense to feed people who are in need, but especially children who are truly helpless to help themselves.
Ok I'm done, and it's nearly 2 AM. But maybe now that I've gotten this off my chest, I can get to sleep! The very idea of not feeding the hungry people and especially the Children is repulsive! Selfish to the core! What fool thought that up?
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