In eight days the citizens of the US will elect its next president and other people to the offices for which they are running. Political ads fill commercial time on the television, flyers fill my street mailbox, requests for donations come through my email, and text messages start dinging around 8:00 a.m. and end 12 hours later. The amount of money spent on campaigning is astronomical. Money like that that could be routed toward schools, food pantries, programs that help the physically and mentally disabled, shelters. The societal need list is big but so is the need to be president or another office. It must be a badge of honor to see who has the bigger checkbook. My shredder has been busy cross-cutting the campaign ads into little pieces and my finger has been busy hitting the "Delete and Report as Junk" button on my computer and phone.
I voted on Saturday, but the deluge will continue for another 8 days. The majority of my email inbox is asking for political contributions. Sad, the "billionaire" who is spending millions every day on the election, losing billions on buying a social media company, could have solved homelessness in the USA and still been a billionaire. For some it is about ego, not public service.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more! For many years now I've thought that the amount of money spent on elections is beyond crazy.
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