Blog Action Day 08 - Poverty

Best of luck to everybody who joins in the world-wide blog, and hopefully people will take time out to spend awhile contributing to the effort. It was certainly interesting to see the wide variety of people and organisations that took part on Blog Action Day 2007, and all things being equal, the day should be even more successful a year later. The key to success has probably been the many different ways that people chose for their individual efforts, some writing, others setting up fund- raising efforts for the day or even longer. Yes, the cynical among us will be banging on about the futility of trying to eradicate poverty at anything less than the highest political levels, but at the end of the day, we are all responsible, we all have a part to play. Maybe that will be the greatest success of the day, convincing people that every effort matters, however small it may seem.

This is a fantastic idea and I will visit some blogs as I don't have one and I am not sure as to how to make one or get one. I would like to have one. I would do this too if I had one. I believe that poverty is overlooked in the United States to help other countries and it saddens me. I am not at poverty level but we have come close several times recently and it is not a fun place to be. I have always thought that I would like to be involved with a group that works with the poor that would help them to get out of the situation that they are in. The government needs to worry about the poor in the United Staes before they worry about starving children in third world countries. Feed and Care for our own!