The kids aren't alright

For all the news you may have read and seen this week, you sure as hell didn't see any of this:

• The four nations with the highest child poverty rates?  Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and the good old U.S. of A.
• One-half of the kids in American public schools are eligible for lunch assistance.
• One-half of African-American children under the age of six in America live in poverty.
• Out of every 100 American children, twenty are currently on food stamps.
• On any given night, 138,000 children in America are homeless.

And these numbers come from the richest nation in the history of human civilization.

But you know, if only those four and five-year-olds would pull themselves up by their bootstraps I'm sure they could find a couple of dented soup cans in some dumpster and a bigger cardboard box to spend the night inside.

Peace,
emaycee