This was an editorial written for the New York Times, published on February 24th.
The structure of the editorial, I felt, was complete and balanced and the content informed and quite adequately informing.
As for timeliness, the editorial pulls up statistics from 2008, but the author does their job to pull us back to now, and back to the current and rising situation.
This is apparently a series issue which is, for some reason, taking a back seat in our news and media. The numbers are serious. The world is in crisis, our tax dollars are being allocated in "small" intervals, and the numbers themselves prove the widespread effects this crisis is causing as we speak.
Starvation, exterme poverty, barren land, rising food prices.
I could go on and on. About the amount of distasteful, inconsiderate extreme and disgustingly frivolous wealth which we exploit, allow and harbor here in America. Celebrities, athletes, corporate executives, old money and new money. More money than anyone could ever need. Houses which are hardly lived in- millions of dollars. Could save the world. Save the world. End the need for war and starvation. And its hoarded. Selfishly. STOLEN. Anyone who accepts those amounts of money, puts a billion dollars in the bank, is sinning. It is the reason why the world will end.. the reason why people die. And people are starving. Humble and modest people who never had a chance are dying. I cant stand it.
Thank you and now I'm depressed.
Fact of the matter is, the author concludes his/her piece by saying
"This isn’t a question of charity. It is an issue of life or death for millions of people. And the hard truth is that if the United States doesn’t keep its word, no one else will. "
This is true, the United States- although all of us excuses makers and lazy finger pointers would like to think that the word "united states" simply entails our government- no it doesn’t. It is us... every one of us who have been granted the opportunities by, believe it or not, our government-- for whatever sick and overly trustful reason has allowed our people to actually make and maintain these frivolous amounts of money. It is us, the people - DEREK JETER- BILL GATES- KIM KARDASHIAN- who has completely and disgustingly taken advantage of our government granted abilities. They have done everything in their power to ensure.. not only that THEY have the ability to put a mil in the bank- bus all of us too. And now that some people own over a billion dollars- enough to solve the problems of a small country- we want to just hold on to it and watch from our marble balconies- and our infinity pools (one of the five that we own on our properties) while the rest of the world burns.
How do they sleep at night? I don’t know.
While they eat thousand dollar dinners-thousands don’t eat dinner at all.
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