If you don't know the significance of the number 3.6 I would humbly invite you to read the following (And to watch the video within it) and share it with those whom you care about.

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Love the world into change.

Let's start by ending the dumbazzed mandate of ethanol. How much grain is wasted on this boondoggle? Also examine how much we have already sent to the third world. Remember all of the money and food from "Lie"-aid? How much of that food was allowed to rot on the docks and the money found its way to to the dictators of these countries.

I'm all for saving lives but when we have world leaders who take advantage of our charity, why continue? They don't give a rat's ### about their people and to them, we're all idiots for caring.

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Oh, my heart is all a quiver at the plight of these poor children. I am not just going to sit here, but am going to take immediate action. This very afternoon, I shall go to the local mcDonalds, but a half dozen cheeseburgers and mail them to deepest darkest Africa as my contribution to stop global hunger. Then, while I am there, maybe I'll pick up a 10 piece Chicken McNuggets meal and mail it to the starving North Koreans. Hope it will still arrive warm.

Anyone have some mailing address I can use to get the food on it's way to little Kwazi and Kim?

In both cases, the causes of the starvation are political in nature, and no amount of food will alleviate their problems. While their individual parents may love, cherish, and show concern for the well being of their children, the political leaders of their country see them as pawns to be used to enhance their dynasties.

Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of Africa, exporting grains to help feed the entire continent. Their leader kicked out the productive farmers so he could give the land to his political cronies, and now his people are starving. Unless they change government, any food I send them will be wasted.

By the way, at least 30 children died while I was typing this reply. And by making me wait while the video loaded, Riggermodus killed off at least 30 more.

The death of a defenseless child isn't funny.

No mother or father should ever outlive their children.

I never said that the death of a child is funny. My point is that the deaths of the children from malnutrition is a direct result of the policies of the leaders of their lands. As long as the parents permit their countries to be in the hands of such people, then they have to suffer the consequences of their decisions. It is always possible for a people to rise up and demand that things be improved, but so far, Africa in general has proven immune to progress. We, (you, I, and others here in America) can do nothing for a group of people that won't raise a finger to help themselves. You can't truly free slaves, they have to free themselves. I can't feed the people there, regardless fo my good intentions because the food will not reach those that are hungry.

My donations will contribute to the maintenance of the Army used to oppress it's own people, and my contributions would be distributed amongst the friends of the politicians in charge, should I desire to donate. So, based on that, I choose not to contribute.

And while typing this missive, 20 more children are dead.

It is duplicitous of the Liberals to decry our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan that freed 50M people from repressive dictatorships, then with their other mouth say we should enter Darfur and free those people by force.

I don't understand the point of continually logging this, if not for a chuckle. Surely you aren't raising awareness...

You did touch on a couple of great points here.

Many politically minded (?) people look at this form of government and don't understand what they're seeing. This thread could go on for pages and pages without a single truckin' conservative "getting it".

I actually have little interest in raising awareness, and am not sure that anyone would or could do anything if they were aware.

But I will confess to a little bit of skepticism about the numbers. 24,000 dead children each day, 720,000 each month, 8,640,000 each year and this is the first news that we have heard of it? If 43 million dead children over the last 5 years hasn't drawn our attention, surely the mass graves where they buried 43 million children should have been noticed. And if the population is starving to the point where their children are dying at such a rate, who among the survivors has the strength to be digging the graves? If the numbers are correct, the bigger problem than food and starvation is the contamination of the water table by decomposing bodies.

While there may well be problems over there, self inflicted of course, the original post, with it's "tug at the heartstrings" message leaves me questioning it's figures much more than it elicits sympathy from me.

I'm not hearttless, but I cannot be fooled by emotional pleas that turn out not to be true. I am a bit cynical, and the reason for that is previous pleas very similar to this one. Little Maria, walking around barefoot in her poor village has been on the Tv asking for us to "Feed the Children" for as long as I can remember, and there seem to have been no improvements in the village in the last 50 years that I can remember. Where has the money gone, and why is Maria still popping out children 3 generations later.

If you want to get some of my dollars, provide a program that sterilizes Maria so that she can't have a bunch of kids living in poverty and breaks the chain. Until that happens, she will just have to live on whtever she makes in her poor village.

That number is in the ballpark. They're talking worldwide.