Wednesday, November 7, 2012

A Tale of Two Numbers...

...and a definition.

The first number: $6 Billion, that is $6,000,000,000. The amount of money the CRP estimates was spent on the 2012 election campaigns.

The second number: 50 Million, that is 50,000,000. The number of goats that my favorite international charity, Heifer, could have provided to impoverished families with that amount of money.


Why goats? Well, because goats are useful. They provide milk and manure while alive and meat and hide when dead. And they reproduce more goats which provide more milk, manure, meat, and hide.

Time for an emotionally charged picture.


So for the price of 50 million goats for people who simply need food and milk, we have nearly the same government today as yesterday.


Now a definition.

Unconscionable:
1: not guided or controlled by conscience : unscrupulous (Lacking moral principles.)
   b : shockingly unfair or unjust
 
This excess of campaign spending is unconscionable in every sense.


So,

To Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney,

You should both be ashamed of yourselves for allowing and participating in this excess.


To My Fellow Citizens,

Don't allow this to continue. In the future, when you see or hear a political ad, turn off the tv, turn off the radio, put down the newspaper. Just walk away. If the ads don't reach people, they will stop paying for them, and just maybe that money will go to someone deserving. And when you go to open your wallet and donate to a politician's campaign, please take a second to consider the goat instead.

Thanks,

S.J. Forester

2 comments:

  1. I would much rather pet, eat, play with, milk, pet, clean up after, and even wash a goat than watch a political ad. The fact that political ads consist of 97.8% lies (don't ask for the math) also steers me towards a goat. I don't think a goat would lie to me because they simply don't care about our opinion.

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  2. Well said. We need less rhetoric. Fewer attacks on persons of all backgrounds. More collaboration on all political fronts. Campaign finance reform. I'd say that's a good start. And waiting for "the other guy" or "the other party" to do it is unacceptable. This nation needs leaders and visionaries. The second-grade mentality of "he started it!" or "well if she isn't going to, neither am I" needs to quit. It's childish and it only further divides this great nation.

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