Sunday, July 29, 2012

WASTED DOLLARS WHILE CHILDRENH AND OTHERS STARVE

It is reasonable that in the USA, private donation support the Olympics.  However, when billions of dollars get spent for the pre-Olympic extravaganza, I cannot help but think of that money being spent that does not directly relate to the athletes' performances.  As a senior citizen, I am not going hungry, I live adequately and frugally, and have a comfortable roof over my head which is my own (no longer belonging to a bank) and can manage to pay the taxes and everything else everyone bleeds out of us (the average citizens as in one of the 995 below $250,000 in income yearly.

Our legislators for the past several years have treated the American budget like their very own credit cards, the plastic that brings goodies but you don't have to pay a cent.  Just find another competitor of the card you hold who will readily take on your debt, interest free for some length of time which gives you time to find another similar deal.  Many of us, for whatever reason of integrity, do not want to leave the taxpayers stuck with a bill when we die to the credit card companies who have been gauging people for years.  No one seems to give credit to the fact that President Obama has prevented those banks and card companies from continuing charging their outrageous usury practices.

I understand that people need some sublimation in order to survive.  However, there are other sources than the Olympics to do it.  (yes, i understand that even that waste of money gives some people jobs.l Bowls provide it and get paid for it by advertising.  Despite the people who will call me a Socialist, which I am definitely not, or a Christian, which I am definitely not, I believe I agree with whoever wrote as though they knew what Jesus Christ would have said and done and that is to share with the poor.  Hypocrisy abounds in our society.  People will give more money to animals than to starving and malnourished children who they forced into the world because abortion is taboo to them.  It doesn't matter if they starve to death after they get here, no sperm will go to waste!  It must be a 'male' thing because it certainly is not something I can understand.

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