Today's blog comes from a suggestion made by my good friend Joe. He said "write about Haiti and why it is that people can raise millions in a day for them, but cant raise that much in a year to help solve our own problems."

My heart goes out to the people in Haiti, it genuinely does. It's tragic that those people had to lost everything that hey had worked so hard for. It's not only physically but emotionally draining to deal with. I dont deny that it's literally heart clenching to view the images of what's happening.

However, that is not what I'm here to discuss. I'm here to talk about people's priorities and outlook on not only the world, but themselves. I'm not even going to go into the money that doesn't actually get to the people who need it and goes into overly bloated bank accounts instead. My question is why do people devalue themselves? I will one last time reiterate that I'm not saying the situation in Haiti isn't important and timely. But aren't we important too? Isn't our economic crisis insignificant? Do the homeless and the orphaned and the suck in our own country mean nothing? Do they not matter or not exist simply because they're not on the media every ten minutes with pictures of their misfortune being shoved down our throats everywhere we look? Or maybe it's because there's no big named celebrities representing their cause, so you just don't think it's a big deal.

The reason these problems aren't being solved isn't because nobody notices, it's because not enough people care. You might see a homeless man on your way to work or know a sick child, but most people won't donate ten dollars to that and I don't see anyone organizing a collection fund to solve the multitudes of problems in the US.

Personally, I think that people are too caught up with themselves to care about what's going on around them, but when they have a chance to feel like their making a difference then they take some action. We talk about taking care of the world and people in other countries when we can barely take care of ourselves. It doesn't make sense and it's sad.

I feel sorry for the people of Haiti. I feel sorry for the rest of the world too.

Peace, Love & Pancakes
-Liberty