the jimmymac attack!

It was nice to see people such as Oprah and John Travolta and George W fly into New Orleans to help the poor people suffering from Hurricane Katrina. John flew in on his own private jet. Oprah is the first black, woman billionaire in America. And if anyone deserves to be a billionaire it is Oprah. She has done a lot for a lot of people. However I wonder if these super rich people realize that they are part of the problem? Less than 10% of the people have most of the wealth in America and the world. This means 90% of the people must share all the rest. While a few people have a lot, many people have little or nothing. About 20 to 30 % of the population must live on very, very little. This huge disparity in wealth is the reason so many people in New Orleans went from barely hanging on to homeless and destitute in a day. The wealthy and middle class just jumped in their cars and airplanes and left town. The poor people were literally left behind.
The hurricane drove the whole problem onto the front pages but every day in communities all over America the same huge disparity in wealth exists. Being the rich and powerful the Haves must take action to fix this problem. Oprah, John, Bono and George must work on the long term, permanent solutions to this. There are people suffering in Africa and Asia of course but there are also people in poverty in the USA and Canada. To benefit the poor and our societies as a whole everyone must be given hope and opportunity to do better. I hope the Haves will understand this will benefit everybody and they take some real positive action to change the inequity.