Our Priorities

This post from Scott Myrhe in Uganda does challenge our national priorities. A sample here:

I am sitting among 273 delegates from 19 countries at the first Uganda
Action for Nutrition Congress, in Kampala. The first speaker,
professor Tola Atinmo from the Federation of African Nutrition
Societies noted that the US President Obama just signed a 787 BILLION
dollar bail-out for the US economy . . . and asked when he could
obtain a mere 10 billion dollars to bail-out the malnourished in
Africa.

I encourage the reading of the whole post. All is not completely hopeless.

Perhaps, of course, our president and our congress believe that American prosperity will trickle down to those living on $1/day in the continent of Africa. Yes, that must be it.