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"It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger" -- Bono (article here)
(thank you wavebreaker)

Comments

[buccaneer.livejournal.com]

Just so.

[laserbitch.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[whitefox77.livejournal.com]

For the same reason why people who have digital satellite T.V. and cell phones for each member of the family can't pay their mortgages.

Priorities.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Those children 1) live very far away, 2) speak a different language, and 3) look different. We may not like it -- we may aspire to be better -- but this is how our species works.

B

[curiousalexa.livejournal.com]

people as a rule seem to be far more likely to maintain the status quo than to change it. even if the status quo sucks.

which continuously boggles my mind.