thoughts this thursday

Things that make me go hmmmm....

30,000 (wait, did you really catch that? THIRTY THOUSAND) children die of preventable diseases every day around the world.
Yet, our country is more concerned about spending $146 billion dollars on The Endangered Animals Act in 2009 as opposed to $46 billion in Foreign Aid over the next 10 years..
When we value animals that much more than people, something is very wrong.

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80% of third-world diseases are preventable with clean drinking water, a "luxury" countless residents of this world don’t have. Imagine. Clean water, cool clear water to drink, is. a. luxury.
While America pays celebrities and professional athletes millions and millions of dollars to entertain us or to play a game and to be able to afford to drive around in their "luxury" suv's and multi-million dollar homes.

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Day 67 of oil gushing into our gulf waters. 67.
I can't wrap my head around the fact that we, as a country, had the ability to get a man not only to the moon, but to be able to walk on it, in the sixties... and yet in 2010 we somehow haven't been able to solve this devastating and ongoing catastrophy; that no one, no team, no group has come up with a solution to this incredible emergency in 67 days. And counting.
The things we've accomplished in space, the unimaginable technology that people have come up with in everything from engineering, to medical miracles, and even for sheer convenience... yet no one knows how to effectively stop this oil gushing under the sea? Crazy.