As they say . . . don't get me started.
Because I could go on and on about this.
Instead I'm going to make this mercifully short and just cite a few incontrovertible facts.
The UN has reported that we are facing a massive famine of 20,000,000 people across Africa and Yemen, and it would only take $4.4 billion to mitigate this horrible disaster.
The United Nations has also reported that all it would require is $30 billion annually, to permanently end world hunger.
Trump and our warmongering Congress is increasing the already bloated defense budget next year by $54 billion, to prosecute more wars and create more enemies for America.
Let me play Devil's advocate now. Let me be brutally insensitive and self-serving.
Since apparently we as a people don't truly care if others in the world suffer and starve to death, let's say for argument's sake we shouldn't care. Hey! Life has winners and losers. Some people have it good. Others starve to death. It is what it is.
Having said that, having declared our own welfare to be eminently more important than that of anyone else on the planet, let me explain why we're incredibly stupid -- make that completely insane -- if we don't take the money out of the defense budget, halt the famine, and end world hunger immediately.
Actually, let Lee Camp -- a truly enlightened activist and my all-time favorite comedian -- tell you why. As Lee says it so perfectly:
"We as a country could do that easily and have more national security than ever, because no one's attacking the country that ended world hunger. . . . They attack the country that bombs the shit out of the Middle East and bans refugees, and says stupid crap like: 'We're #1!' . . . . If we ended world hunger we'd be safe again."
Does it really take a stand-up comic to get our national priorities right?
Or maybe we're trying a different approach to getting laughs: A comedy of errors.
[ This originated at the author's personal website . . . http://jdrachel.com ]
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