Asking an American to make a pointless gesture instead of actually doing something useful is exactly the kind of blather that is intended to make people feel righteous and good about themselves rather than actually helping people who need it.
>>This isn't the job of politicians. This is the job of all of us.
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>As far as the politicians are involved, I'm asking us to have a national day of humiliation, something that Lincoln desired and got.
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>That should cost $0.
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>What the federal government currently spends combating hunger at home and abroad is in the multi-billion dollar range.
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>You could be right though.
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>Asking an American to go a day without food might be way too much to ask.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
