President Eisenhower, a former five star general, reminded us that: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies…a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hope of its children.” Yet we are spending $48.2 billion a month; $11.1 billion a week; $1.6 billion a day; $66 million an hour; $1.1 million a minute; and $18,323 a second on the military.
If we love America and love our children we must all stand against the excessive greed and militarism that tramples millions of our children entrusted to our care. America’s Declaration of Independence says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.” After more than two centuries, it is time to make those truths evident in the lives of all poor children and to close our intolerable national hypocrisy gap and show the world whether democratic capitalism is an oxymoron or can work in a majority non-White world desperate for moral example. Please download a copy of Ending Child Poverty Now, share it widely with your networks and then take action. Together, acting with urgency and persistence, we can end preventable and devastating child poverty across our country. A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the 21st century world or before God.
Article Appeared @http://blackstarjournal.org/?p=4656