Reply #20: Thanks for hearing! [View All]

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I tried so hard to word my post accurately, but ... the point seems to have escaped. I don't really believe that I attacked anyone or their interests. I just asked for some perspective and balance.

>I appreciate your post, and as a matter of fact there is something I can do today to help combat poverty.

Oh, Thanks! :hi: :toast: :hi:

Yes, there is so much to be done!

I will NEVER forget last year, and begging people, and begging and begging! for them to call and write their senators and reps about the budget cuts, yet very few responded at all.

The budget was lost by TWO representative vote, and ONE Senator vote. IF there had been *half* the response to those pleadings as there is to writing to save Mike and thanking Keith, it could have had a different outcome. It isn't one or the other -- it's remembering poor people just as much as the "stars"!!

That hurts deeply, when you're one of the ones affected, and see just how little you matter.

This isn't a horse race, it's about humans and suffering and dying.

Thanks for what you do!