|
What more can a person do to help others like the couple I was talking about who are homeless and living in a tent at the creek?
Our various government agencies are not able to help such people falling through the cracks (not saying they are at fault here - when you have people with no address/phone/etc it is hard to send help their way).
I have my own issues I am dealing with that are, to say the least, not fun. But that does mean I cannot do something more - I am just not sure what right now I can do.
I see a problem, I see people needing more help than I can give right now, and it freaking sucks.
It is like my X - sick as hell and nothing I can do to fix it, it is damned frustrating. You can do some things to help but then you realize somewhere inside that the problems are bigger than you and what you can do. In other words, the best you can do is a little something but it won't fix the bigger problems.
There are no super heroes coming to save the day it seems. No magic item that can heal the physical and mental pains. The idea of all for one and one for all seems to be something one just reads about in high school English.
Somewhere out there people are sleeping on park benches, a parent is being battered and trying to protect themselves and their child and have no where to go.
I don't care about what would Jesus do - I care about what I/we do.
And we did, and are doing what we can when it comes to trying to vote people into office that will see the bigger pic and help out. But damn, I am 45 and we still have the same big problems - people are homeless, cannot get good health care, I keep hearing how bad our education system is and so-and-so can fix if you just elect them to office (45 years as noted...and the same problems are not yet solved???)
How hard is this really? End the wars. Cut funding to the war machine. Take my money, raise my taxes - just use it to help those needing it, use it for roads, schools, shelters - just quit using it to kill people and for weapons. Seriously - we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world already, what more do we need...especially when the whole damned idea was to save lives here and to 'protect' Americans.
You want to protect us from something? Protect us from being homeless, protect us from the things that are killing us - diseases, lack of health care, hunger, etc. Protect us from corporations that want to screw us over time and time again.
I'll kick in some money for other countries to help them and their people. I'll gladly work some extra hours if we can pool that money to help one another and get those suffering the most the help they need.
Take one of those fighters and refuse to buy it - spend the money on some housing for folks. Take those tax breaks and shelters for companies making billions and not paying taxes and use it to buy medical equipment for those that need it.
**I shouldn't have to be asking "now what, what more can I do?" for the people who are suffering and need it. I work, I pay taxes and want to see that money going to help and defend people from the real enemies they face. And those enemies are not some guys half a world away, those enemies are here and they call themselves poverty/homelessness/medical care - not al qaeda and taliban.
Lets have a real war on the terror that is taking the lives of people.
But I suppose there is no money in that.
|