Thanks to my good friend Mitchell Allen for reminding me today is Blog Action Day and the subject is poverty; read his fine article Poverty Inaction. This is a particularly difficult subject for me and is impossible to write about without getting on my political soapbox. Poverty along with hunger holds a special place in my heart and I wish it didn’t exist. I donate food, clothes and money to the poor; not just to Americans, but to other countries like Africa. Poverty is horrifying particularly if you live in a place where you really have no options.
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