Today, I heard in the news that Madonna is in the African country of Malawi where she is building a school. Well, she is not doing the brickwork but donating the money for the school.
Why in the world Malawi?
Can she not find any place closer to home with enough misery where she might be able to help? Or she is not clear about where her home is?
Why these super rich "stars" go out of their way to help other countries rather than help here in the good old USA?
Oprah is doing the same thing. Spends a fortune building some girls school in South Africa where it turns out the teachers are raping the students. And she is financing it.
Maybe these people don't think there are people in need in this country.
What about the families that lose their homes from over their head because the factory they worked all their life closed or went out of business. What about all the children that go hungry because the parents have no money left for food after they paid the mortgage or the inflated rents.
I guess they feel that the people of Malawi need the help more than our own
people here in our own country.
Maybe helping other countries gives them the warm fuzzies not even mentioning the publicity while helping in your own backyard is not that exciting.
I don't care what anybody says but the View From the Bottom is that this is terribly wrong.
Maybe little isolationism wouldn't hurt us. Fix the fence in our own backyard before we start fixing other people's lawns.
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