Eloquently put.
Oscar Wilde, while on death row, sardonical
ly observed that the way the Crown treats its prisoners, it doesn't deserve to have any. How a society treats its weaker members is very revealing of its worldview. This is a country that would rather incur ridiculous expenditur
e for fighter planes (with an F5 fighter jet for example going for between $27.9-29.9
m), rather than focus on healthcare
, education or even improved housing standards for the populace. It's very revealing of where the state's priorities lie, with ever selfish politician
s acting ever brattier.
It's a shameful read looking at it from the developed world's perspectiv
e. Here in the less developed part such statistics make for continued sad reading and stats like these would have been the last thing I expected to read. Not once am I attacking the US. It's always about the people, stupid.
What matters most is the citizenry, a concept politics can never seem to grasp no matter how many emotionall
y laced tomes are penned. Perhaps it might be good for the decision-m
akers to listen to this Akan proverb:
It is only man that matters
I call gold, it is silent
I call cloth, it is silent
It is only man that matters.
This article ties in well with Ellen Chesler's, "How Women Became Citizens (Hint: It Didn't Happen Overnight!
)" - Huffington Post,
http://huff.to/eCGqE8.Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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