Celebrities and the Distorted Ads

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As I was sitting here, taking a break from my regular housework, I flipped the tv on. Now, I turned the channel to a celebrity talking about starving children in some foreign country. Now, I have a few things to point out. I admit, children starving is a terrible thing. In this country, we have enough problems. I mean, we have people in this country who are starving...why can't we help those in our own country first? Okay, that wasn't my main beef with the commercial...if they want to help someone in another country that is underdeveloped, hey, more power to you. Here is my real issue: celebrities wanting you to donate and they appear on television asking for your help. Now let's think about who YOU are... I don't know about anyone else, but in this day in time, I scrape up change for gas money to get to work. I have to make payment arrangements with the electric company every three months so that my electricity doesn't get cut off. I live in a small two bedroom one bath trailer. I don't have any money to spare...if I did, I would give it to my father, who has been working since he was twelve years old, so that his brothers and sisters didn't starve to death. Another thing, think about what these celebrities make. I read somewhere that a certain celebrity made $260 million from June 2006 to June 2007. Now, personally, I think that if those celebrities were really concerned with the actual purpose of the charity and not how it looks on them for donating, then they would give $259 million of that to charities and would buy a sensible home, buy a sensible car, and stop buying Gucci and start shopping at Sears, Fashion Bug, Wal-Mart, Goody's, Dawahares, or somewhere like that. I mean, who needs $260 million dollars? If those celebrities really were supporting those charities, then they would start living sensible and start helping out humanity because they certainly CAN afford it.