Sorry Congo: Foreign aid money used for gala and mural

Don't get me wrong - I love art.

It's one of my biggest passions, but 23 Million Dollars from the United Nations foreign aid fund used for the mural?!?! What an e'fing waste. What a joke.

To use that much money, which - mind you - could have gone to Rwanda, Kenya, Congo, Liberia, Botswana, Afghanistan, to name just a few. There are over 42 countries in the world that, according to the UN World Food Program, have a population where 20% or more of the population is starving. In 2006 alone, that was 87.8 million people.

Here are a few facts from Hunger International:

~923 million people across the world are hungry.

~Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.

The rest here .

I'm so over the UN. It's time they get scrapped and/or overhauled. Lately all I've seen from their leaders is stupidity, and that's unfortunate for those who work for them and really work hard to fight hunger and such.


~Elindelwolf

Obama Wins

Congrats Mr. President, you campaigned hard and came out the winner.

Now...

"Someone will have to measure the wreckage. Someone will have to walk through the ruins. Someone will have to count the cost."[1]

Convince me; prove me wrong, sir. Show me that you're not just another politician who has promised the world, but delivers nothing.


~Elindelwolf


Sources:


1) Pierce, Charles P. "The Cynic and Obama." Esquire June 2008: 1-4. 26 Oct. 2008 .