Man it ticks me off to see organizations asking for money and then putting some little kid on camera to pull at my heart strings. I'm ticked because they have to go to another country to do this when just an hour or so from Lexington you can find some terrible areas of poverty. I guess since their not inner city youths or third world countries they won't get the face time on tv.

When I was active in the church I voiced this opinion to the folks who needed to hear it. I was so against going to South America (Mission Trips) to some village to dig wells or plant crops when we have terrible problems in Eastern KY. To many folks it was a working vacation going on these trips...they just wanted to see the world under the disguise of helping.

I say take care of America first and then if we can help others or at the very least take care of us a little more than we get now.