It's time governments across the globe and the extremely wealthy get some soul, education and end world hunger. What the U.S. government spends in less than half a year on the war in Afghanistan, it could end world hunger. I've done the math, and the United Nations claims it would take about $300 billion a year to end world hunger.
"The Price of Hunger;" (http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/23/opinion/ed-food23) also states that $300 billion is less than half of 1 percent of the world's combined gross domestic products. Hence the money is definitely there to end world hunger.
U.S. tax payers shell out more than a $115 billion a year for the fiasco of death in Afghanistan. This is tax money for the war alone folks, not counting everything else! This information can be found in the article "Afghanistan War Costs Loom Large over Obama Troops Announcement" on the web page; http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/afghanistan-war-costs-soar-obama-troops-announcement/story?id=13902853#.Ud78ax7n-e0
According to the above article the total cost of the war in Afghanistan has billed U.S. tax payers more than $443 billion and the U.S. government has channeled well over a trillion dollars in this futile war.
The U.S. is spending $100
billion a year for the war in Afghanistan. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/18/afghanistan-war-cost_n_850293.html)
First lady Michelle Obama displayed her compassion for the
hungry in August, 2010 by vacationing abroad with 40 of her friends in a five
star hotel in Spain. According to the article "Michelle Obama Criticized
as "Modern-day Marie Antoinette" Over Spain Vacation," (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012789-503544.html) she and her guest occupied 60
to 70 rooms. The travel cost alone was $73,781.50 one way. This tells me that
the people with power and money care nothing about the poor and hungry. F-word
you, I'm living large, it sucks to be you seems to be the attitude of the first lady and all the other insanely greedy leaders with money and power.
How about the very rich
citizens of the world with the same mentality, "I'm rich, your poor, sucks
being you."
If your successful, that's
fantastic and there is absolutely nothing wrong with spoiling yourself, friends
and family with vacations and material goods, but over doing things is just
plain wrong when there are massive amounts of people, many of them children
dying of starvation.
Word around the campfire (http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-most-outrageous-purchases-rich-people-bought-in-august-2012-8?op=1) states that in August of last year a signed Babe
Ruth baseball and bat sold for $776,750 at an auction. Granted, I'd love to
have those items, but paying well over a half a million dollars is ludicrous no
matter how thick your wallet is. That kind of dough would buy a lot of canned
food for food banks all over the world. At the same auction a single bidder
paid 1.6 million dollars for a dime! The dime was minted in 1873.
The list
goes on and on as for why world hunger will never be solved.
