Jeffrey Sachs writes...we can end extreme poverty by the middle of this century..very true, we believe, very true...
so true for all of us, we can subtract or sacrifice much of the extras to save lives...
today was an interesting journey for me..i rode the Metro North to Grand central with my bike on hand..and met a family i knew...Jose is in Jail Jimmy...they showed me a fifteen thousand dollar check..to be paid to the federal agency..where at 26 Federal plaza...they would have to go to pay..he was arrested in Freehold..
I knew Jose because he and his family were friends..ihave referred him many times to help get work, and his skills are bar none...living in substandard housing..i wondered what the 15000 now to be paid to stop deportation could have fed the family with or put money on ahouse for...
i rode my bike down Park avenue, down Madison, down through Soho, down Canal, but over thru the bowery..where i used tohelp the homeless..now an Avalon building of high rents.no ownership...
great attractive, yet no affordable increase..going .s of canal, i went down broadway all the way..past the federal plaza..past 911 and trinity church, past the century 21..and over by John street to the habitat meeting...with my co directors, including Paterson Habitat where i first started, and also NYC habitat where i was on the board....
the meeting talked about how could we do more, lets think out of the box..THIS IS HABITAT TIME..THIS IS OUR TIME...NO QUESTION!!!!
my life has so many more questions, daily, i ask about how can we do more...God help us do more, to get homes for people in the NY area, to change dwellings and families lives to better lives and to change our own..how can we change poverty now...what Robert Moses of anti poverty strength and vision will come and not build highways of seperation, but visions of HOPE and celebration fro all families ending poverty in our area..WE HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN...may Millard be in heaven, my dad...Mother Teresa who i met..anne and many others..God bless you all, have a dream, help us build dreams and end poverty in our lifetime.WE CAN
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