Get Up and Get to Work

Poverty has always been and will always be an issue in the world no matter what we do to eliminate it. It is a problem that can only be ameliorated, yet we as Americans are failing to do so. Poverty is a growing issue as of late because of the recent downturn of the economy, and we need to make sure we don't fall into a hole too big to get out of. According to an article in the New York Times entitled "Rising Food Prices Push Millions Into Poverty, Study Says" by Sewell Chan, food prices have consistently been on the rise lately, and this has pushed a whopping fourty-four million into poverty. This presents an issue because America, with its influence, is affecting other countries, making other economies unstable, and the world is beginning to collapse into a never-ending black hole that we will never be able to get out of. Ever. Unless we do something to change that. Part of my solution to alleviate poverty is community service and donations and establishing charities. Every American who is economically capable should donate money to the less fortunate. And America needs to get up and stop whining and get to work on improving itself and the world. Whatever happened to the old America that was a force to be reckoned with and had a booming economy and immigrants were flowing in like schools of fish that scatter after a shark comes around or something.