Maybe now that this economy has gotten our attention, we should start looking beyond ourselves.
I appreciate the fact that we want to help people in other countries, especially when there is always a commercial on TV asking us to do so.
I want us to help each other. We went too many years just taking care of ourselves, working too much, and expecting someone else to do things for us. I worked in customer service most of my life and I swear people don't know how to read a bill. They don't want to pay a bill they owe, they blame the company for their huge bills.
There are many hungry and poor people in the USA. Look in Appalachia. Look on the "bad side" of any town in Home Town, USA. It isn't just hungry children, it is also people that have slipped through the cracks, people that use to have and now don't, people that never have had anything and I mean they have nothing. We need to look in our own back yard and help the homeless, the hungry and the people that have a very hard time asking for help. Help ages between 30-65, these are the folks that have fallen through the cracks. Some of them lost their jobs, their homes, their families. They are living on the streets, having no idea the "street codes". These folks can't get unemployment, or that has run out, they have no medical care, no roof over their heads. Reach out when you can. I am not saying give huge donations. Hell, I can't afford to take care of me like I used to, but I try to buy a little something extra when I go get groceries. I see someone that is homeless and I give them some food or a dollar or two.
Just think of America first and then we can expand to other countries.
Just my thoughts.