MONEY AND HUNGER

What makes for an ideal society to live in -- one where a lot of cash can be handled, one where you have a lot of friends you can joke with and share beautiful times together whether singing or playing games, one where you have friends who will be there when the going gets rough or just simply a shelter where you will be safe from all the elements, and you have your family with you and the rest of the world can go hang?

Some people could live with just a Bible in their hands and always feel safe from any kind of harm. Others truly need a lot of cash or else they would go berserk. Still others are happy with available food on their table every meal and that's all. 

In other words, to live in an ideal society, there are only two things we can aspire for: have a material or a spiritual existence. Well maybe a third is that we combine both. 

As I listen to the speakers of the $81M dollar  theft of the Bangladesh central bank, I get dizzy of the travels of the millions of dollars from one hand to another. 

Actually, there was a bank many years ago which showed how many bills there were in P1Million pesos. The bank displayed it for the public to see. The bills occupied about three feet by three feet and a height of about four feet. I could not help but grow my eyes big on them. 

Pero ngayon, milliones pa rin pero dolyares pa. 

So who says that there should be hungry people on earth? There is so much money roving around and they are just in the wrong pockets. 

If only the United Nations could make the affluent divest themselves of AT LEAST ONLY 15% of their earnings every year just to insure that no hungry people would be found on earth I think that that would ease the world terrorism problem a bit. 

Let us fight hunger with all the arms of the world, human arms embracing every open mouth especially of children, not military arms. Let us make food available for everyone a primary goal. Restaurants with unsold food, let us make them open their doors to feed every child who need not bring a stone to knock. Let us carry the infant of the mother to help her have time to eat her dinner. Let us ask the legislators to reduce their budgets for food since they have their salaries which they could use to buy their own meals. Let us ask the National Food Authority to be transparent in their purchases and sales of grains and post tarpaulins in front of their offices to remind them: BRING DOWN THE PRICES OF FOOD. 

Let us make it a crime to convert agricultural lands into golf courses or subdivisions. If it is still possible, let us reconvert the destroyed lands into agricultural sources of food again. 

Let us put up freezers in all the fishing village communities for the fisherfolks to keep their catch fresh. 

Let us give incentives and prizes to inventors who can come up with formulas, gadgets, devices, and other such inventions that would make cooking of food cheap and yet healthful. 

For historical purposes, let us always remind legislators how they look like the first time they stepped on the institution and see themselves five or more years after. Together, let us also photograph their constituents in the same way, when they (the legislators) assumed office
and five years after the tenure. Compare the shots -- who grew healthy?

Give us this day our daily bread. --- Matthew 6:11