Global Health Initiatives Could Save 9 Million Lives Per Year:
Cost? Only 7% of Congressionally Funded Bailout
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,
the hopes of its children."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, US President, Chance for Peace Speech, April 16, 1953
At the end of October 2008, as the cost of the US economic bailout of Wall Street spiraled upward to what is now estimated to be $7 trillion, I was trying to explain to my 4-year-old the importance of collecting pennies for UNICEF while trick-or-treating. I explained that UNICEF gives shots to kids who haven't received them
to help prevent them from getting sick. Sasha asked me "Why some kids can't get shots?" A difficult question to answer, indeed.