"America: the only country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed without eating, elderly going without needed meds, and mentally ill without treatment - yet we have a benefit for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations. 99% of people won't have the guts to copy and repost this!!"
I am a person of no anger. I don't know what is is, anger just isn't an emotion I feel. I've gotten angry maybe 3 times in my life.
What I'm saying is, it takes quite a lot to make me angry. I rant about things a lot, I get upset, but I'm so rarely ever actually angry.
When I read this, though, I felt rage. I wanted to cuss out my friend who posted this. If I were near her, as sad as it is to say this, I probably would have hurt her. That's something I have never felt in my life, ever. Yet right now, it's exactly how I feel...
Whoever wrote that has no clue what they're talking about... The ONLY country? Try looking into 3rd world countries... Like in Ethiopia you get people who spend two weeks WALKING to the city in hopes that they might find meds for their parents who are in need, with a 95% chance of not even getting any.
Or in Israel where they only have 2 homeless shelters in the whole country, each only housing about 70 people at a time... Their few soup kitchens get over 1,000 people a day who are mentally ill, homeless, abused, etc, who have no other help. And that's only a small number compared to everyone else there who never receives help.
Haiti is completely leveled thanks to the earthquakes. I can't even begin to comprehend seeing my whole country leveled to the ground, over 100,000 people confirmed dead and even more missing, in a country of only 9,035,536 people.
Sure, America has many people who are in need who never get help, but to say that we're the only country is completely far-fetched and, quire frankly, down-right selfish.
People in America, yes even the homeless, live in luxury compared to people in Haiti. I understand it's hard for a lot of people here, and I'm sorry we can't help everyone who needs it, but right now people in Haiti are so much worse off than anyone in America can even begin to comprehend comprehending... We should be happy to help.
If the whole of America were to be leveled by a 7.0, who would help us?
People in America have no idea what poverty is. When we read about things like what happened in Haiti, why the hell are we complaining about helping them? Shouldn't we be thankful we don't have to know what it's like to live in Haiti?
Haiti was already a poor country, the poorest in the whole world. Half of their population were unemployed, and the ones who were lucky enough to have a job made less than the equivalent of 2 dollars a day.
When we start seeing statistics like that in the USA, maybe then we can think about complaining.
Until then, STFU. Seriously. I'm tired of reading all this BS.
And this is coming from a girl who has experienced homelessness, has experienced what it's like to go without meals, etc. And I am happy to say I don't know what anything close to poverty is like, and I will gladly do what I can to help those in third world countries who know nothing but poverty. Who experience a 7.0 on top of that...
~xHx~