www.one.org
My column this week will be brief. All I want to do is ask you to visit www.one.org and add your name to the petition to alleviate poverty worldwide. It is a nonpartisan effort, backed by the likes of U2's Bono and The 700 Club's Pat Robertson. It costs you nothing. It takes 2 minutes. It will help lift 1 billion people out of generational poverty. There is no downside here.
posted by juvenal_urbino | 9:39 AM
16 Comments:
Bunch of crap. Didn't take me two minutes. Took me two seconds.
Hope everyone else signs it, too.
Well, some people type slow.
I signed up, but now I want one of them bracelets.
Wow! Whodathunk alleviating worldwide poverty would be so easy! I feel richer already. Now, where's the petition for nuke-u-lar proliferation and overfishing? I've got a few extra minutes, and I don't mind solving a few more world problems.
Coach, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the *$&# field.
I gotta say the whole petition thing has been really liberating. I've discontinued my support of the Sierra Club and Amnesty International, and I sent Sally Struthers a picture of my naked backside instead of the price of a cup of coffee per day. I would've cancelled my support of the WWF, but I did that when I discovered it had to do with wildlife and not rasslin'. I've encouraged all of my friends to sign the petition, too (via email, of course, stamps cost too dang much).
Hey Coach...
And your point is...? (other than being in a bad mood)
Truly wonderin'
C'mon, Al. As usual, I'm pointless. I really do think it's a good idea, but it's just fun to be annoying sometimes. There's an important difference between sarcasm and satire, and I'm generally too lazy to make the important instructional point necessary for satire. I'm guessing that you don't know who this is since you assumed I had a point.
No, I'm completely in the dark. Glad to know "whoever you are" was just playing...
Al -- I know who Coach is. We were funnin' each other.
Joe -- I think the One campaign is designed to do 2 things. First, let the politicians know that the voters would like for America to contribute more toward these goals. It's part of a broader campaign to marshall international resources for a full-out effort to end the worst cases of generational poverty on a national scale. Supposedly, the more developed nations now have the resources available to actually do that; all that's lacking is the political will to do it.
The second thing I think the One campaign is designed to do is inform more people just how little America does contribute toward these goals. According to what I've heard on the news from people who run NGO's, polls consistently show that most Americans think our government spends much, much more on foreign aid than it actually does.
As to whether or not other G8 countries also have One campaigns, I don't know. I suspect they have something similar, however, just based on the fact that several of the people and organizations involved in the U.S. One campaign have also been lobbying the G8 to get more involved.
I agree. Although, this $20B could easily be considered part of State and Defense spending (the latter is already 20 times that figure).
Coach, you are being a -----!
AND I'M NOT TAKING IT BACK!
:)
I've got an idea who Coach is now...
Probably wrong, but it won't be the last time.
I think this is just feel-good-ism. An internet sign-up is just as likely to be padded with fake names as a list of Florida voters. Who would pay attention to this? I think if we find the billions of dollars Kofi Anon has stashed away somewhere we should use it to do something great and positive with.
http://www.stoponlinepetitions.com
Now that's something you can get behind.
Or this one: Do Not Feed The Energy Creature.
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