"I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night."
— Tony Campolo
(Source: progressive.org)
"throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"In London, the games will be an expression of three of the most rotten aspects of our version of modernity: surveillance and the arms trade; out-of-control consumerism; and most spectacularly, the fact that the elites who make their money out of these things have been barely touched by the crisis that is ruining lives across the planet."
— John Harris
(Source: Guardian)
I cannot begin to understand this pasty tax issue, how is it more important that the 50p tax issue. (Both articles are from the same day)
The 50p tax was bringing in extra money and had not been in place very long when they cut it. A massive tax cut for the rich.
But the pasty tax makes better headlines and so has become the big political issue, despite being rather insignificant.
