Everyone's Children

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

So anyway the pres called me up and said what do I think about 87 billion for more war in Iraq. I said Do you know how many kids you could feed and give clean water and vaccines for that much money? he said no I don't and besides I don't know how to feed kids. I know bombs, is all. So I said I noticed that. I already told you to quit with the bombs, the weapons, all of them. Send food to the kids. Just do it. How hard can it be? Also get this. You start handing out sandwitches instead of high explosives and everyone will really like you and you won't have to worry about all those angry "terrists" you keep trying to scare us about. ¶ 6:56 PM

Everyone on the planet should have enough to eat, clean water, health care, and the kids all go to school. But they don't. 24,000 kids die of malnutrition and preventable diseases every day. Why is this? There is not a real reason. There's plenty of food to go around, plenty of everything. So why don't those poor kids, the ones who live in sub Saharan Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America- why don't they get anything? who's stealing their food? What can anybody do about it?