I guess they figure with these specials, if there's no Elmo in the foreground, kids aren't going to want to watch, and therefore, parents won't be able to watch with them, and take the messages they're trying to get across.
That's not my point. My point is all this terrible stuff is going around and it has to all the sudden be Sesame Workshop and Elmo's job to comfort children when no one else is making the effort. I'm more annoyed that they HAVE to make these specials if anything.
Admittedly, I have missed out on some of the more recent specials, but I have heard they were good... I'm just not sure of how effective they'll be... that war special's been out what a couple of years now? Any progress made on the war effort since then? Not really. Are people going to benefit from this special? Probably only because the political fatcats are too busy feuding with each other rather than actually helping the economy that people HAVE to turn to these food pantries to eat, because less and less money is going into their pockets, resulting in less and less trips to the grocery store to buy food to feed themselves with... that's the only benefit I see from this special, yes it will raise awareness of food pantries and such, but I doubt it's actually going to improve the situation.
I could go on about how ineffective the government is, that we have to chose between weak and draconian, and how the big corporations are run by imbeciles too blinded by their own gluttony they don't realize or care they're going to wind up destroying themselves...
But the fact that Wal*Mart is a sponsor of this really gets to me. I mean, sure, it's nothing but a PR stunt to put on a press release and a tax write off... that I get. But what REALLY gets me is when these companies come out and basically say "You know what makes America great? in times of adversity they come together, help each other out, pull themselves up by the bootstraps," then say "We refuse to hire anyone until we get an even bigger tax cut." Poor people can't have welfare or government help but the big Conglom-O's are on corporate welfare and bigger cheats than anyone out there. All this money could go to funding the under funded soup kitchens, creating temporary construction jobs that can help these families out, even extending unemployment. But no, it goes to making sure CEO's get huge bonuses when they drive the company to the skirts of bankruptcy for a job "well done."
Capitalism is SUPPOSED to be a symbiotic relationship. The lower classes buy goods and services from the upper classes, and in turn, those upper classes hire the lower class so they can get money to buy stuff... the rich profit from the poor, the poor benefit from the rich. Now we got these gluttonous nimrods that are trying to cut out the middle man and get as much money as possible, and it's hurting them in the long run because no one's buying anything. No one's getting hired, less money both sides get. They don't save all that much.
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