Ignoring the subject matter, if you can...
If any of you have a minute, could you please read the following copy and give me your opinion of what type of writing this writer is most suited to? This is his general style of writing and his writing tends to be very passionate and moving. I'm just needing some professional opinions of where this writer's talents may lie. I really appreciate this so much.
| I was sitting here this morning looking at my two kids and thinking about all the other kids in the world. I thought about my son and his autism and his future. I thought about my daughter and the world she'll inhabit when she's my age. I thought about my partner and how precious she is to me and about how a little part of me fears her loss every time she walks out the door. I thought about you and all of your partners and your children. I thought about all the troubles and challenges we all face with impunity, tears, honor, anger and fear. I thought about the old guy who's always begging change in front of the local market. I thought about the child with malformed legs I saw walking with her mother yesterday. I thought about climate change, hunger, illness, illiteracy, ignorance - all the ills that plague this world. I thought about the number of people in the world who simply want the same chance for their loved ones that you and I want for ours. A simple chance to feel the sun, to provide sustenance, to drink clean water, to not fear disease, hunger, the violence endemic in ignorance and death. Then, I though about $700,000,000,000 and what that amount of money could buy. I started doing some research. How much exactly is $700,000,000,000? It is $140 billion more than has been spent on the Iraq war since the invasion. It is $120 billion more than that spent on social security benefits. It is nine times the amount spent on education in 2007. It would give 4.4 million Americans free college educations at private institutions or 23 million Americans free college educations at public institutions. It is what it would cost, over 10 years, to reduce oil dependency by 60%. It's over twice the amount of all money given to all charitable organizations from all sources in any given year. It is 35 times the amount spent on all foreign aid, world-wide, in most years. At minimum wage ($6.55/hr), working 40hrs/week, 50 weeks/year, it would take about 53 million years to earn $700 billion. It would buy 3.5 billion laptops. One for every child in the world. It is 70 times more than the cost of a nationalized health plan. It is more than $100 for every person in the world. Frankly, I am solidly pissed. The immorality of the actions that caused these crises are eclipsed only by the immorality of the cost to every person on this planet to prevent the consequences of those actions from coming to pass. Wealth continues to be privatized while debt continues to be socialized. This has to stop. There is no other choice. There should be public outrage. Instead, there is only indifferent acceptance. If we continue to allow ourselves to be defined by our differences we will be conquered by our common weaknesses. The security of each of our futures has been further compromised. It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable, treatable disease and hunger. These people are playing with the lives of the people I love the most. I am done accepting the "inevitable". Silence does indeed equal death. Thanks for listening. Now go tell someone else. |
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