where is the Rage?
- added August 16, 2006
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Why do we accept poverty? Why do we ignore the poor? Why can the US afford war but not peace? Why do we as Americans tolerate the indifference of our politicians to these issues? Where is the rage?
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POVERTY IS A POLITICAL DECISION. We are making that decision to keep people poor by our refusal to exercise the freedoms we take for granted. It's good to hear and see representatives of the catholic religion talking about the issues that are truely Christian. The funds and resources of the Catholic church would go a long way to removing poverty from the world.
This video is good work about a subject that we should be reminded of daily.
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Excellent story. The middle class in American is vanishing with the gap between the have's and have not's ever increasing. Unfortunately the media is helping to blur the distinction between the two. Hopefully mediums like Current TV and story's like this will help people open their eyes to what's really going on in the world which sometimes is just a rock throw beyond their gated communities.
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Wonderful. This story is one that should cause all to take some action. When you consider that God has made the world for all his children and we have some that withold food to demostrate their power, it should sicken you. Poverty is not a political or Christian issue, it's a societal one.
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Important question. Nicely done.
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elsewhere i had posted that our country's legalization of torture
(culmination of a long slow painful process of stupidification)
should be the focus of our rage,
but it is a focus without meaning if you crop poverty to the point of
starvation out of the background.
thank you for this question i have asked every day for decades -
Really powerful imagery. The film was very moving.
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enter your post here A very moving piece. Bishop Gumbleton has to remind us what our priorities should be. Can anyone name a more important one than watching others starve, and correcting it?
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- jlabrogers
- 10/03/06
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Ahhh Yes. Here we go again. White Americans must feel guilty for their success! Let us all wear hairshirts!
The White West has given $500 billion dollars in Aid to Africa since 1950. Yet the continent's GDP (If you don't know what GDP means, please stop reading and respond to someone else. Thanks)--- As I was saying Africa's GDP has not moved over this time.
Despite the touching images----It's long past time that Africa help itself. Like all forms of welfare, foreign aid also enforces an attitude among aid recipients that circumstances are beyond their own control, and therefore they must depend on begging from foreigners rather than on entrepreneurship. In doing so, foreign aid creates a giant moral hazard.
The good news is that some Africans have awaken. Kenyan economist James Shikwati, argues that the West should STOP sending Aid to Africa.
So Viewers....... before you drink in this propaganda piece....do some homework before you applaud those who publish this misleading tripe.
Cheers,
Mike Aronson
Altadena, Ca-
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- mikearonson
- 10/16/06
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Hi,
I am involved a film project for the college Jefferson State working with the international honor society Phi Theta Kappa. Our project focuses on poverty, and as the coordinator, it is my job to secure footage, our own and pre-existing, for the film. Once completed, this project will be shown to actual Sociology classes around town, and I also hope to upload it to Current. We have already shot in New Orleans, but I would really like to incorporate elements from your piece into ours. Perhaps you have an e-mail address where we could discuss this further. Mine is jmepps@jeffstateonline.com
Thank you so much for your time,
Justin Epps
VP of Scholarship-
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- funkybeatnik
- 10/17/06
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this was an incredibly powerful piece.
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excellent!
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