THOUGHT OF THE DAY - WAKE UP, AMERICA

I don't want to see a violent revolution in this country, but, sadly, we may be heading there.

The gap between the Have-Nots and the Have-Mores is becoming larger by the second. One in four children go to bed hungry in this country, people are becoming homeless, and our young men and women are coming home in body bags for oil that we can't pay for anymore, anyway.

I'm for peaceful resistance, but we need to wake up, people!

Who cares about Lindsey Lohan and Charlie Sheen?! Who cares about all these senseless distractions?!

Kids in Egypt are using technology to start revolutions, and we're downloading endless videos of drunken frat boys hitting each other in the crotch.

There's a time when we, as a people, have to look up from our TVs, computer screens, and cell phones, JUST FOR A SECOND, and just look around our neighborhoods. Look at all the "For Sale" signs, look at all the people out of work, look at all the people who are trying to do whatever they can to survive, look at all the marriages breaking up because of finances, look at all the children who will be homeless.

America, for all it's fault, does the most humanitarian work of any country, anywhere, anytime in history. If we can look inward and take care of ourselves, maybe we will be stronger to help the world even more...

But it starts in our home, then our neighborhoods, then our communities, and then our world.