Poverty Ignored

While listening to the radio today, a plea was established asking for donations of school materials and uniforms for a school that was recently flooded due to heavy rains. In my sick mind, my reaction was not for my heart to go out, but instead: “Why couldn’t my schools have flooded? We would be so set. Damn, better luck next time. The natural disaster lucky lottery strikes again!” Then again, if we had a flood here we would have nothing to lose. At least I have that to be thankful for, honestly nothing could get worse.

The same radio show is doing a promotion where they will clear someone’s credit card debt for them. How asinine, because in this country, to even have a credit card, you wouldn’t be poverty stricken, at least not in the sense of village standards. So now, some middle class person is going to be really happy, while I watch children more or less starve. Oh well, poverty isn’t pretty, we wouldn’t want to put a face on it with a radio promotion because then we would be forced to acknowledge it. “Okay, we will drive through the village, but put on your tunnel vision goggles, look straight ahead, do not pass go, please let us continue in our fantasy world…should we pick up KFC for dinner?”