You’ve seen the ads on TV, the children in wheelchairs, disabled, with no arms or legs, asking for only 63 cents a day ; or the starving dog, horse, or cat and the spokesperson asking the same amount for food for these dying animals; I even saw one for the Heart Association. The other night I saw one with a very old woman walking in and out of a hovel dressed in ragged clothes. The announcer was telling us that this 90-year-old woman suffered under persecution by the Russians during World War Two and now in Ukraine is suffering again under Russian occupation, and, you guessed it, for only 61 cents a day we could feed this woman healthy food and save her life.
There must be something magical about 63 cents a day or $19.00 a month; each of these organizations are asking the same amount. Do they figure that we are chumps for that magic figure? Excuse me! But all of these organizations are worthwhile!!! On top of this we have almost 800,000 homeless people with no place to sleep except on the streets of our cities.
You know; we have over 400 billionaires in this country. If these 400 rear-cheek tightwads would give just 1%, no 5%, of their ill-gotten gains to help correct these problems, can you imagine what our country would look like? Could you imagine? how fulfilling the Sermon on the Mount can truly be if this were to be true?
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
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