Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 organizations working with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries.
In an effort to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice, it states recently, "The number of hungry people in the world now stands at 967 million, around 24,000 people die daily of hunger-related causes, approximately 2.
7 billion people live on less than $1.
00 a day, and up to 80 percent of this income goes on food.
" Oxfam inferred that these problems existed long before the Wall Street financial crisis and is dubbed a "perfect storm.
" Similarly, Care International is a confederation of twelve organizations.
It provides assistance to people in need of long term solutions to ending global poverty.
It was founded in the wake of World War II, and is one of the world's largest private humanitarian relief and development organizations with projects in over 70 countries around the world.
It also recently commented that its calculations are equally bleak and that approximately 220 million people in the world are on the brink of starvation.
Based on these statistics and projections on worldwide hunger by Oxfam International and Care International, the world is currently in a crisis with hungry and starving people.
While Washington and Lee University hosted the 25th Annual World Food Day, on October 16, 2008, with the title, "Choices for a Warm and Hungry Planet," this event was given little or no media attention.
There were no governmental celebrations or flag waving for this event.
It is no wonder, because the current economic crisis resulting in bailout for the rich is classified as the worst economic crisis in recent memory since the Great Depression.
Currently, corporations and financial institutions are jockeying for position to get a slice of the piece from the bailouts being offered by the government.
However, there are no advocates in sight for the nation's poor and for their slice of the pie before it's all gobbled up by big businesses.
While all eyes are focused on Wall Street and bog corporations, the ranks of the poor and destitute are growing by large numbers in America.
Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities mentioned that poverty is rising substantially, and there is a strong potential for more hardship and destitution than we have seen in this country in decades.
Greenstein's Center projection estimated that 36.
5 million Americans currently live below the poverty line, which will likely increase by 10.
3 million.
The center further stated that poor children will probably grow by another 3.
3 million.
The numbers of people living on food stamps have grown by 9.
6 percent, or 2.
6 million over the past year, and food banks around the country are experience shortages and longer lines.
Additionally, only 40 percent of families under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families are actually receiving cash support.
Reactions by many to these occurrences have revealed a shocking of their conscience with regards to what is talking place.
It is devastating what is taking place in the world with the poor and destitute.
It appears there is hardly anyone pleading their case for a financial bailout across the globe.
Frankly, the billion of dollars bailout package in America will be paid back by the poor.
Amazingly, the increase of sales taxes, property taxes jumping up a notch, water and utility bill, telephone taxes, and governmental inflation will eat away at the little cash they have thus making them poorer.
According to some, since the rich has created this problem, it appears as if they are the ones who should be paying for the cost of the bailout.
However, I would be surprise if they will.
They have the most highly paid lawyers and accountants who are able to get them out of paying taxes.
However, the poor has no advocates with such sophisticated credentials to plead their case, and as a result, they pay the price for everyone while being crushed into the dirt as the rich get richer.
The politicians need to do more for the poor.
When crisis of this nature takes place the poor are blamed as a result.
Naturally, the politicians are standing on both sides of the fence and juggling things around in their hands.
The poor, weak, and least of all, are criticized and are left out in the cold.
On the other hand, attention is paid to big businesses and powerful corporations, and what is left, if anything, is trickled down to the poor as they wait in food lines and in shelters for handouts.
Some questions many have asked regarding this devastating scenario are: 1) why is it that the richest and most powerful country in the world, allows its citizens to go hungry, homeless, without healthcare, and jobless, while the rich are living on more than they are able to consume, and are wasting what they don't need? Also, 2) why is it that America can run around the world as the world's policeman and spend vital resources as it deems fit on other nations, while its own people at home are starving, crying for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and a job to provide them with an income while America turns a deaf ear? These are major concerns Americans are faced with.
They require solutions from our government and also the major corporations where consumers spend their hard earned cash.
There should be solutions to these issues, which are critical, and should be derived more sooner than later.
© Joseph S.
Spence, Sr.
, 8/19/09 © All Rights Reserved Submitted by "Epulaeryu Master.
"
In an effort to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice, it states recently, "The number of hungry people in the world now stands at 967 million, around 24,000 people die daily of hunger-related causes, approximately 2.
7 billion people live on less than $1.
00 a day, and up to 80 percent of this income goes on food.
" Oxfam inferred that these problems existed long before the Wall Street financial crisis and is dubbed a "perfect storm.
" Similarly, Care International is a confederation of twelve organizations.
It provides assistance to people in need of long term solutions to ending global poverty.
It was founded in the wake of World War II, and is one of the world's largest private humanitarian relief and development organizations with projects in over 70 countries around the world.
It also recently commented that its calculations are equally bleak and that approximately 220 million people in the world are on the brink of starvation.
Based on these statistics and projections on worldwide hunger by Oxfam International and Care International, the world is currently in a crisis with hungry and starving people.
While Washington and Lee University hosted the 25th Annual World Food Day, on October 16, 2008, with the title, "Choices for a Warm and Hungry Planet," this event was given little or no media attention.
There were no governmental celebrations or flag waving for this event.
It is no wonder, because the current economic crisis resulting in bailout for the rich is classified as the worst economic crisis in recent memory since the Great Depression.
Currently, corporations and financial institutions are jockeying for position to get a slice of the piece from the bailouts being offered by the government.
However, there are no advocates in sight for the nation's poor and for their slice of the pie before it's all gobbled up by big businesses.
While all eyes are focused on Wall Street and bog corporations, the ranks of the poor and destitute are growing by large numbers in America.
Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities mentioned that poverty is rising substantially, and there is a strong potential for more hardship and destitution than we have seen in this country in decades.
Greenstein's Center projection estimated that 36.
5 million Americans currently live below the poverty line, which will likely increase by 10.
3 million.
The center further stated that poor children will probably grow by another 3.
3 million.
The numbers of people living on food stamps have grown by 9.
6 percent, or 2.
6 million over the past year, and food banks around the country are experience shortages and longer lines.
Additionally, only 40 percent of families under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families are actually receiving cash support.
Reactions by many to these occurrences have revealed a shocking of their conscience with regards to what is talking place.
It is devastating what is taking place in the world with the poor and destitute.
It appears there is hardly anyone pleading their case for a financial bailout across the globe.
Frankly, the billion of dollars bailout package in America will be paid back by the poor.
Amazingly, the increase of sales taxes, property taxes jumping up a notch, water and utility bill, telephone taxes, and governmental inflation will eat away at the little cash they have thus making them poorer.
According to some, since the rich has created this problem, it appears as if they are the ones who should be paying for the cost of the bailout.
However, I would be surprise if they will.
They have the most highly paid lawyers and accountants who are able to get them out of paying taxes.
However, the poor has no advocates with such sophisticated credentials to plead their case, and as a result, they pay the price for everyone while being crushed into the dirt as the rich get richer.
The politicians need to do more for the poor.
When crisis of this nature takes place the poor are blamed as a result.
Naturally, the politicians are standing on both sides of the fence and juggling things around in their hands.
The poor, weak, and least of all, are criticized and are left out in the cold.
On the other hand, attention is paid to big businesses and powerful corporations, and what is left, if anything, is trickled down to the poor as they wait in food lines and in shelters for handouts.
Some questions many have asked regarding this devastating scenario are: 1) why is it that the richest and most powerful country in the world, allows its citizens to go hungry, homeless, without healthcare, and jobless, while the rich are living on more than they are able to consume, and are wasting what they don't need? Also, 2) why is it that America can run around the world as the world's policeman and spend vital resources as it deems fit on other nations, while its own people at home are starving, crying for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and a job to provide them with an income while America turns a deaf ear? These are major concerns Americans are faced with.
They require solutions from our government and also the major corporations where consumers spend their hard earned cash.
There should be solutions to these issues, which are critical, and should be derived more sooner than later.
© Joseph S.
Spence, Sr.
, 8/19/09 © All Rights Reserved Submitted by "Epulaeryu Master.
"
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