[Floris]

Originally Posted by lasto

hate to pop your cracker and all but i help a fellow human being every day of my life by providing food on the table and clothes on my kids back.Who without me there quality of life would be bad - though not as bad as some of the people in Africa.Now remember not everyone is starving in africa - just the select few and tbh donations aint the way forward - imagine living your life on donations.20 yrs ago when Live Aid first did that record they used pics of starving children to get their message across - 20 yrs later the same thing happened - now with all them donations they recieved would`nt you of though someone would of given then the pill so no more children will be born into the same poverty that befell there parents.So these people are starving to death yet they got time and the energy to start a new generation.Education is the key here - once you got that then u can educate the goverment as this is where the main problem lies.Ay goverment that stands by and watches its people die should be folded and a new one put in place thats my view anyway.In a time of plenty like we have now - no one should really be starving but watching programs liek Oprah will just make u think u a do gooder but that will soon wear off as soon as the xmas spirit has vanished.Ok lets all send $1 and lets see if we feel good - do we sleep better because we sent off a dollar - do them kids know where that dollar came from - do they really care,as long as they are fed today.It aint upto us to feed the world - and sadly politics plays a bit part in them people starving.If goverments can take over countries are you telling me the Europe Nations could not get totgether and sort this problem out if they needed to ? - Well yes they could but they simple dont care.
Oh yeah and stop watching them crappy tv progs or u be crying to lassie comes home next

I watch Oprah once per week. I like to check some interviews with some pretty good celebs