bling on the dead
Ok so my sister in law goes to her brothers funeral to find crapy people wanting to make money off of the dead body, in Arizona it is considered cheap to have a person cream maid. So they get this personal with a sales personality and he says would you like a 10day roast or 5 days, 10 days are 700 dollars, and 5 days are 950 dollars, what the heck the man is freakin dead. Then they tell them that if you want to view him before to ID him it is going to cost another 150 dollar why? I have no freaken clue. Then they tell them with your package you get this box to put the cream in it (crapy box that does not even shut all the way) so to change that box that would be another 150 dollars. This is ridicules. It is a freaken dead people with no hearts type business and they make a load of money, the average tradition burial is between 5 to 8 thousand dollars minimum, in my country they get buried for free. They seriously have no respect for the dead they make business out of nothing, and they make good money. I should open me one of those obituary things, I would only have to by the oven or make my own fire, and the I can make my own caskets…bling bling..man that is just missed up.
organized religion
living hope, that is the name of the vancouver church who reserved the rose garden for their holiday service. at first they though they can only raise 30,000 they ended up raising a 100,000 dollar to reserve the WHOLE rose garden for their service including free interance and parking. they actually had 14000 people show up. this might sound good, but i think it is rediciouls, you raise a 100,000 in a few weeks, damn then i better open me a church too. even the church's overall goal is to make money. i am sure i can find a few words to say to get people to put more money in the basket. a 100,000 dollar is a waste of money for such event. if it is really about giving back to the community why wasn't that money used to help the 1 in 5 children (12million a year) in the U.S. who live in poverty, or maybe use that money to open a free walkin clinic for people with out health care and can not afford one since corperate america keeps the prices so low right?. here is a list blow of what this money could have gone for if there was good intentions other than making money. for a 100,000 we can higher a new and improved version of monica lewinsky to get bush impeached lol, then she can get on her knees and pray for everyone at the rose garden.
yea yea yea, you probebly think i am not religious, i actually am and i have faith, but to be religious doesn't mean i have to support corperate religions, that watching them brain washes people more than fox and alot faster too. yes corperate, they are considered a business entity and are studied in macro-economices. before they open a church they actually have to apply for a business license, i wounder if they have two type of a licenses one with little kids and one with out. ha ha
- National Homeless Estimates: 700,000 per night; 2 million/year. (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 1999).
- Thirty-one million Americans now live in hunger or on the edge of hunger. (State Government Responses to the Food Assistance Gap 2000, Third Annual Report and 50 State Survey, December 2000).
- One in five people in a soup kitchen line is a child (America's Second Harvest, Hunger 1997: The Faces & Facts).
- In 1999, approximately 12 million American children were hungry or at risk of hunger (United States Department of Agriculture, Household Food Security in the United States, Fall 2000).
- Families are the largest and fastest growing segment of the homeless population. New York City officials report a record of 6,252 families with a total of 20, 655 members are lodging nightly in city shelters, with rapid increase. (Use of Shelters By Families Sets Record in City, New York Times; Metropolitan Desk, August 1, 2001). In 2000, requests for emergency food assistance from families with children increased by 16% in American cities over the past year, the highest rate of increase since the recession of 1991 (U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities, December 2000).
- Nearly 1 in 5 children (more than 12 million) in the U.S. live in poverty (U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, October 2000 Update). The U.S. child poverty rate is higher than that of most other industrialized nations.
- In 1999, more than half of all food stamp recipients, 9.3 million people were children (Children's Defense Fund, Poverty Matters: The Cost of Child Poverty in America, 2000).
- Nearly 9 million children in the U.S. live in working poor families (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, The Poverty Despite Work Handbook, 1999).
- In its 1998 survey of 30 cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that the homeless population was 49% African-American, 32% Caucasian, 12% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 3% Asian (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 1998).
- 46% of cities surveyed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors identified domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 1998).
- Research indicates that 40% of homeless men have served in the armed forces, as compared to 34% of the general adult male population (Rosenheck, Robert, Homeless Veterans, in Homelessness in America, 1996).
- Approximately 20-25% of the single adult homeless population suffers from some form of severe and persistent mental illness (Koegel, Paul, The Causes of Homelessness, Homelessness in America, 1996, Oryx Press.). According to the Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, only 5-7% of homeless persons with mental illness require institutionalization; most can live in the community with the appropriate supportive housing options (Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, 1992).
- Recent research indicates that even mild under-nutrition experienced by young children during critical periods of growth may lead to reductions in physical growth and affect brain development (The Links Between Nutrition and Cognitive Development of Children, 1998, Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy).
- There were record levels of homelessness in New York after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. (New Wave of the Homeless Floods Cities' Shelters, The New York Times; National Desk, December 18, 2001)
Famine
i found this article called Famine, it really made since, it might not relate to media but it sure has some truth about man kind not being so kind if that makes sense. here it is
Former U.S. president General Dwight D. Eisenhower put the true cost of war in simple terms when he said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired is, in a sense, a theft from those who hunger & are not fed, those who are cold & are not clothed. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953)
The first Gulf War alone cost the Allies a half billion dollars a day, or about $350,000 a minute.
A fighter plane costs around $25 million each.
A Tomahawk missile: about $1.3 million.
An air-to-air missile: $800,000 each.
Tank shells range from $2,000 to $36,000 each.
Starving ChildrenTranslated into more everyday expenses, for the price of this one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years.
Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children have died from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could have been prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
World Health GraphThe World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving!
Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
However, the world can produce enough food to feed its expanding population. While some famines are caused by drought or other so-called natural disasters, children are more likely to be starving because of man's inhumanity to man--war, Dying Manembargoes, government corruption and economic oppression.
Such as the insurmountable debt many developing countries' owe to international creditors who enticed them to take out huge loans and are now holding the debtor nations in economic slavery, extracting exorbitant interest rates that ensure that the poor grow poorer and the rich lenders grow richer.
While these children die of hunger, rich Western nations burn millions of tons of food a year to keep prices high. Famines are largely a result of Man's corruption and greed and unwillingness to care for others.
