Reply #90: please explain

[reggie the dog]

hear me out and then rip me up if you think i am out of line. this is not sarcasm, I score nearly autistic on the many online surveys I have taken and sometimes I just dont feel right and my family says sometimes it is if I have no feelings, no soul.

I think we should help in Haiti, but I think we should be just as disgusted about the lot of the poor in France and the USA on a daily basis, as we should about the poor everywhere in the world. I see my French leaders telling us there is no money for our social services, yet just before an election they are willing to help in Haiti (they probalby would have even without the elections but whould they have had the same sense of urgency? (Remember France actually supported the Hutus in Rwanda). Also when I see Bill Clinton, who used the term welfare queens to demonize the poor in the USA I get the same bad feeling that they want a nice photo op with some poor non whites. I feel powerless to do anything to actually get the leaders of the world (bankers, the elite, and the politicians they own) to start to give a damn about poverty on a daily basis, clean water on a daily basis, quality life for all of us you know, and I get pissed off when the ruling elite give help with a smile in this really bad situation, but just forget less, how shall I say, media attention grabbing tragedy on a daily basis.