On October 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.
I wonder if Americans today would pitch in... or would they say "Why should we help them? We have enough problems of our own?"
It's a different, more selfish world. After all, we don't even want to help our own people. Health care for all? Fuggettaboutit.
Maybe we need to step back a little and view ourselves from a different perspective.
Perhaps it's time we stopped acting like spoiled brats, singing the all too familiar song titled "Me Me Me Me Me Me Me ME!" It's all about MY money, MY tax dollar, MY gun, MY country, MY pocketbook, MY rights, MY healthcare. MineMineMine.
I can see the little child, hugging his toys to keep everyone else away, can't you? As a parent, what do you tell a child who won't share?
Maybe it's time we took a little of our own advice.
