On 5/11/2018 10:58 AM, Gary wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> While there my be people who find themselves in hard times,
>> let's not pretend that there are are not people who go out and acquire
>> pets they cannot afford to care for. A prime example would be the
>> street people who get a dog to pose for pity donations.
>
> Here's a good one that I've noticed on late night commercials.
> Some charity to feed the starving little children in some 3rd
> world country. First of all, they show cute little kids to get
> your sympathy. But then they show many hard cases...mothers
> waiting in a long line for food and those little kids look like
> living skeletons, obviously near death from starvation.
>
> What bothers me is all those horribly starving children are being
> held by very well fed and healthy looking mothers. I see a big
> problem with that.
>
I'm not making light of the situation by any means. I did love a line
by comedian Sam Kinison about those children's charities: "Gee, you'd
think someone on the film crew could give that kid a sandwich."

How about if they take the resources used to film those commercials and
put it towards providing clean drinking water, food and medicines instead?

Jill