SPORTS AND THE HOMELESS

                                              THE HOMELESS
                                         IT'S JUST MY OPINION

I go to the grocery store and I see a lady out there collecting money for the Homeless. Of course she's driving a brand new Cadillac Escalade!

I go into the store and I see a display for Kegs of Beer and JUNK FOOD for the Football game party or the Indy 500 or whatever sport is in just then.

I hear of Players getting paid Multi Millions of $$$$ to what, PLAY A GAME????? A game that 10 years before, they were playing down the block for nothing?????

And I hear of how people pay TRILLIONS OF $$$$$$$$$ to watch those games! I hear how these people take TIME OFF FROM WORK and park outside the Stadium Days before the game to make sure they get tickets and a good seat and actually live in tents and cook off their tailgates, kinda like the HOMELESS???

I hear how grown Men and Women sit outside a store for as long as a week or more, just to be the first one in to buy a new GAME! And they admit that they will probably loose their job because of it, but it doesn't matter to them!

ALL THIS, JUST TO SEE OR PLAY A GAME! For GOD'S SAKE, IT'S A GAME! NOT LIFE!

At the same time, I hear these same people YELLING AND SCREAMING AT THE GOVERNMENT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE HOMELESS AND JOBLESS PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREET!

BY ALL RIGHTS, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING MORE, SHOULD I?
But I know how dense the Majority is, so I'll spell it out!

When the Government starts sending aid to the "3RD WORLD" victims of natural disasters and all this Genocide that is going on in Africa and more, you all start shouting about Charity beginning at home! But at the same time you are preparing to head over to your Stadium to get in line!

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT YOUR COMMUNITIES COULD DO FOR THE POOR AND DESTITUTE, HOMELESS AND JOBLESS AND ABUSED MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN WITH THE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS YOU WASTE ON GAMES (SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT) EACH YEAR?????!!!!

If we are the loving, caring, giving people we tell ourselves, and everyone else, we are, then we wouldn't be wasting our time and resources in such selfish activities as sports that, at least monetarily, do nothing for anyone except ourselves for our own entertainment! Imagine if all the money spent on Sports were put to use in New Orleans and Mississippi, how those places would already be back to normal again! Imagine if all that money was used to help the starving and abused people in Africa and South America, both for food and Political services! All that Death and Mutilation could be stopped!

Of course there's a CATCH 22 here! if we took away all the money or even a portion of it, then all the industry surrounding these sports would crash. Things like "FAT HEAD" and all the souvenir sales and related clothing and all the rest! Guess these people would have to find something else to sell, huh? It's kind of like the Medical "INDUSTRY" that has built around the TREATMENT OF LONG TERM FATAL DECEASES! That INDUSTRY is so big that the CURES AND VACCINES for those deceases (THAT DO EXIST) will NEVER BE RELEASED because of the immense loss of Jobs and INCOME that the INDUSTRY WOULD SUFFER! In 55 years since the Polio Vaccine was released and all those Treatment Facilities Died, not one major Decease Vaccine or Cure has been released! Not even with all the TREMENDOUSE increases in computer power, Medical Technology AND TRILLIONS OF $$$$ DONATED AND GRANTED since 1955! Isn't that Strange?

But, how could I possibly suggest that you give up some of your Sports and Entertainment! Certainly that is more important than all these peoples lives, isn't it?

Of course this is just my opinion, isn't it!

Comments

[Dreama]

Well written article.