Can you imagine the kind of country we would have if....

[Liberal Veteran]

...the kind of attention and energy spent on the Schiavo case in the last week were spent on:

The 35 million Americans who go hungry?

The 43 million Americans without access to basic health care?

The untold millions who can never rise to their fullest potential because they cannot afford a college education?

The millions of people who are sleeping on the street or in a car because they have no other place?

The millions of people who have to choose between food and medicine?

The millions of people who go to bed cold because they cannot afford to heat their house?


How we can become so enthralled in the minutia of a family's private tragedy while ignoring the millions upon millions of greater tragedies that surround us ever day is sad reflection on our society.

[pnutchuck]

1. Kick and I sent it to CNN

very good statement and most accurate.

:kick:

[quiet.american]

2. Yes, we might acutally have a "culture of life" then! n/t

[sui generis]

3. don't get your knickers in a twist sonny

that's what us democrats are here for. Somebody has to give a damn about the important things.

The rest of those bastards are who they are exactly because they don't care about anything that doesn't benefit them directly or who have bought into needing tax cuts for the rich while they sit in their trailer park waiting to win the lotto.

[ComerPerro]

4. And you missed a major one

The millions of people who, after painful soul searching, decided to seek an abortion because they knew they woudln't have the means to raise a child, who knew they couldn't provide the necessary care, but who didn't want the child to spend its adolescent life in an orphanage.

[jojo54]

5. Excellant thread

:kick: :kick: and more :kick: 's

I like your train of thought LV. And I'm glad pnutchuck sent it to CNN. Now I'm curious to see what they do with it.....probably file it in their "truthsayers trashcan" 'cause they CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

[goodboy]

6. that's a country I'd be proud to live in...tell me, where is it? Holland?

[Greylyn58]

7. What a wonderful country this would be

if any of them even showed a shread of concern. That would really be a "A Culture of Life"

What we have now is a "Culture of Death" and these "Rapture Rightist" enjoy feeding on its corpse.

[Rainbowreflect]

8. That is a beautiful Golden.

He looks so much more dignified than my Golden, the clown.

[Greylyn58]

12. Thank you

Sheridan is my baby. He was 4 1/2 when I took that picture. He's 9 now and still as playful as ever.

He's a big clown too. Makes me laugh all the time.

[beyurslf]

9. Um.... we'd have a country run by Democrats?

[Mich Otter]

19. A Country Run By Democrats

Unfortunately, the Democrats have done scant little about reducing poverty, providing health care, human rights, cleaning the environment, and improving labor conditions in America when they have had the power. The ties to Big-Money are too strong for most Democrats to resist.
In contrast to the Republicans, the little bit accomplished by the Democrats seem like a lot but, the reality is the Democrats are not pushing enough to make America the kind of society it ought to be.
I am hoping Democratic candidates in 2006 start standing up and declaring support for universal health care, enforcing labor laws, providing tax-payer paid education for every individual as far that person can go, and setting benchmarks for environmental improvement that are as good as technology can be.
I expect the Democrats to be more of the same Wall Street ass-sucking that we have come to expect from American politicians.
Them that has the gold, get to make the rules.

[Terran]

20. Well, not since Johnson

Lyndon Johnson did a huge amount to combat poverty, and the agencies he created still do that today. But you're right--while the Repugs actively work to make people poorer, recent democrats have done little to hlp people out of poverty. And in fact, the area I work in, involving the Continuum of Care process administered by HUD, began under Reagan, amazingly enough.

[rkc3]

10. Nominated for greatest.

[madinmaryland]

11. It would be a place that I would want to live!

Nominated for Greatest Page

[BigBearJohn]

13. This is so true, it hurts.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Not to mention the $300 Billion spent to kill Iraqis.

300bil would go a long way if it was spent helping people rather than murdering them. Not to mention the effect it would have on the root causes of "terrorism".

But, it's better to keep the capitalists happy and give the folks bread, circuses, and a good dose of flagwaving.

[stubertmcfly]

15. and that is just the domestic list...

...if you look globally there are MANY other issues that the time and money spent on this shiavo debacle could have helped dramatically.

rwanda tops my list.

[stubertmcfly]

21. whoops

in my fury i said "rwanda" when i meant sudan.

[meganmonkey]

16. NPR impressed me this morning - they had 2 pieces about

homelessness during my drive to work. One was about the increase in homeless Veterans coming from Iraq, and the other was about an effort in Manhattan to accurately count homeless people (as well as offer them assistance, of course).

You are absolutely right. The amount of time and energy spent by our media and leaders on irrelevent or inappropriate things is appalling.

I work in hunger relief/homelessness and I am painfully aware of the lack of coverage in the Corporate Media. This seemed like a good sign...

Hey, a little good news coverage is better than none, right?!

[tjwash]

17. I know. My wife is a gets transitional housing for homeless people...

...and they keep cutting the budget at the NPO she works at.

[northzax]

18. Canada?