The news was filled with excitement yesterday as the world’s richest man was announced. His name is Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico. Coming in a close second was American Bill Gates with an estimated worth of 53 billion dollars.
When I saw the headline, I thought who cares who the richest person in the world is? I think we should be more concerned with who the poorest person in the world is and what country that person hails from. Bill Gates is the richest American but who is the poorest American? What city does that person live in? What street does he sleep on? What does he look like? What happened to him that led him down the road of poverty? What can we do to help ease his pain?
As the world celebrates its 1200 billionaires in Russia, America, Mexico and other countries, let’s take a moment of silence to remember the poor, the hungry, the sick, the lonely…the millions of people who spend their day trying to find a place on the street to sleep for the night.
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