In Delaware a license plate sold to a collector for $165,000. In Haiti, little children are eating dirt cookies for which their parents pay 5 cents each. The dirt to make 500 cookies costs the Haiti baker $5.
Why are the children eating dirt? Because food prices have sored over 50% in the last year. Why? Partly due to natural causes creating food shortages, but also due to soaring fuel costs which results in soaring costs of producing and transporting food, and also partly due to developed countries diverting food crops to burn as fuel in their vehicles.
In Haiti and most of the poorest nations, people in poverty spend 75% of their income to buy food.
We boast that we are the greatest nation on earth. It is evil, when children eat dirt and we live the way we do.
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When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, a Black Horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.
6 And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine."
When we want to kill greater than help we go deeper into sorry.
Fleta, I just read on Patsy's site about your brother Richard. I'm so sorry for your loss.
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