Saturday, November 25, 2006
some people are dreaming of a white christmas this year. some others are searching for the one true love. yet others are drooling at the thought of what lies under the tree.
have you given a thought to those who perhaps want just one meal for christmas. or thos to whom christmas or new year's or any public holiday doesn't mean anything more than the other 364 days because each onw of them is filled with the same hunger, the same povety, the same disease and the same pain. there are millions of such poeple all over this world and nothing we do sitting down is going to help.
you may ask why this dude is sitting down typing this sappy sounding crap abt poor people and not donate some cash to some charity. well majority of the people who make cash donations know the things that i am talking about and feel somewhat ashamed at the lavishness at which they live their lives and at the same time they chose to give a lil donation to appease thier conscience. and another fact to note is that no place where you make donations explicitly tell you how much of your donation is going to " administration and overhead costs" i mean how much of your money actually reaches the person eho needs it. one simple example would be the bullshit that the NKF is singapore has been poketing and disshing out for years till the major expose just recently. well donating nowadays dont really equate to help. not with greedy m%&^%(*&&^s sitting around in expensive suites.
so i type this shit to bring awareness. think about what you want to do and what you can do. there aint no obligation, there aint no small print, i'm not even advocating any organisation. i'm just telling you that there are alot of people out there who need your help. and if you want to help you look and search for yourself and find the people that you think most needs your help and the way in which you can best help them.
i salute not the people who give money. i salute and deeply respect the people who get out there and actually do the stuff like bringing the aid around. do i like shopping? do i like clothes? do i like parties? do i like drinks with my friends? YES! absolutely! but that don't change the fact that i am deeply concerned about the starving people. any self conscious adult would most probably call me 'full of youthful exuberance' or the UN might call me 'idealistic' or people might mistake all this for teenage angst. i'm not angry. i'm disgusted. i'm furious. i'm apalled. that the top 1% of the population in america owns 95% of the county's wealth yet they are the nation with the highest international debt and launching the most missiles.
the singapore government is gonna raise the GST to 7%. or something like that. they say that this increment is to benefit the poorer people in society and that this increment will help to reduce inequity (i.e. the income inequality among the people). well i want to ask the govt this: if you raise the tax by 2% will all the extra money you get go to the poor people and back to the community you take it from? who wants to answer that question huh white shirts (and pants)?
i learnt in economics that the best way to solve inequity was a proporsional taxation system. this means that the rich get taxed more than the poor people. the increased gst would mean that EVERY SINGLE PERSON would be paying more for everything ranging from rice, milk powder to jewellery and diapers! the poor people have to pay more too! why cant the rich polititians take a pay cut and not stay in such large houses? why cant they tax the richer people more or increase the profit taxes. the govt plans to reduce the profit taxes. this means that the profits of firms would increase and the rich would get richer while the poor are forced to spend more of thier incomes on the meagre essentials that they already strive to buy!!!!!!!!!!!!
i should become a politician myself.
kofi ANAND
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