Friday, July 10, 2009

What is Suffering?



Ok folks, sorry for the disturbing image. This photo to the left is the "Pulitzer Prize" winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
Although my posts are few and far between and I have only one follower at the moment, I still have something to say. I live and work in Silicon Valley CA. I was driving to work today listening to my favorite commercial news radio station when a reporter was going on about the CA budget. As you may know, CA is going through a budget meltdown currently. The report was about how the State of CA is closing down DMV offices for two Fridays a month to save money. The reporter was interviewing an individual who had to wait in line for "as long as an hour". Then the reporter went as far to say that Californians were "suffering" because of our budget crisis. Suffering? NO! we are NOT SUFFERING. The child in the photo is suffering. We are doing just fine.

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