Wednesday, February 3, 2010
quandry
is it appropriate to simply cut off contact with those who just bullshit you on a daily basis? i want to avoid that but i'm not getting anywhere and only finding excuses at every turn and yet see the exact opposite in plain sight.
Monday, February 1, 2010
humanitarian hypocrisy
i'm posting this here because if I post it to facebook i'll probably piss off more than a few good friends. i do know though that there's at least one person that agrees with me on the matter...
Haiti. it was a horrible thing that happened. and some people who have nothing better to do than to draw attention to themselves said some even worse things about it. i thoroughly believe we should help out if we can but what i don't understand is why, when something like this happens, celebrities are quick to jump on the cause to raise awareness and money. ok poor wording - i understand why and it's good but i guess what i'm getting at is that no one in this country ever seems to do anything in the slightest to solve our own problems first. we collectively piss and moan about how the government is spending so much money and that "we want our money back" and yet no one says anything when we send out money that is, in all likelihood, never coming back to us in the long run.
again, don't get me wrong, i'm all for humanitarian efforts to help out the impoverished, but when we talk about how we're the "richest country in the world" and need to spread the wealth to those who need it, despite our ever increasing debt, and in the same breath shoot down the idea of tax increases for the rich, less taxes for the poor, and universal healthcare in one of the most unevenly balanced societies on Earth, there's just something incredibly hypocritical about that.
Haiti. it was a horrible thing that happened. and some people who have nothing better to do than to draw attention to themselves said some even worse things about it. i thoroughly believe we should help out if we can but what i don't understand is why, when something like this happens, celebrities are quick to jump on the cause to raise awareness and money. ok poor wording - i understand why and it's good but i guess what i'm getting at is that no one in this country ever seems to do anything in the slightest to solve our own problems first. we collectively piss and moan about how the government is spending so much money and that "we want our money back" and yet no one says anything when we send out money that is, in all likelihood, never coming back to us in the long run.
again, don't get me wrong, i'm all for humanitarian efforts to help out the impoverished, but when we talk about how we're the "richest country in the world" and need to spread the wealth to those who need it, despite our ever increasing debt, and in the same breath shoot down the idea of tax increases for the rich, less taxes for the poor, and universal healthcare in one of the most unevenly balanced societies on Earth, there's just something incredibly hypocritical about that.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)