Well boys and girls, here's another one for ya.
Recently I saw on the news that President Bush was speaking at the inauguration of a memorial to Martin Luther King. As they were discussing the details, they revealed the price tag for this memorial. One hundred million dollars. That's right. $100,000,000. If you could see me now, I'm putting my pinky on my lip, Dr. Evil style.
I want you to sit there for a moment and think about that. Can you think of any better ways to spend a hundred million dollars to honor a man who dedicated his life to helping others? Don't get me wrong, I'm no rocket scientist, but I can come up with a couple of ideas that would be a little more in tune with Dr. King's legacy.
How about dividing up all that loot between a thousand kids to put them through college? Lets see, that's $100,000 per child. That should get them a 4 year degree or at least well on their way.
Or we could take that money and give it to families in need. All those people that have been stuck living in trailer homes since Katrina? I'm sure they wouldn't mind someone donating a home to a thousand of them.
My point here is this. Dr. King was a great man. A man who should be honored and remembered. But what would he say if someone told him "When you die, we will spend one hundred million dollars for a memorial in your name." Do you think he would be happy? If you do, you are probably looking at the wrong website and should save yourself the time of reading this blog in the future.
Keep on keepin on.
3 comments:
Good point. I hadn't thought of it that way. I doubt he would have wanted this at all. I can see wanting to honor him with something more permanent, but that seems a bit excessive. They could have put up a nice statue in his image and a little garden and plaque and call it good. I think that would be a more fitting tribute to the man.
I fully agree.
I would have to agree as well. Personally, I think shelling out millions or billions of dollars on any type of memorial is excessive use of public funds. Be it, the Oklahoma Federal Building Memorial or the Dr. King Memorial...heck, even the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam War Memorial I feel is bad stewardship of money. I mean, I don't know how much was spent on the building of that (and I'm too lazy to google it right now) but you can be sure it wasn't a couple of thousand dollars. How much more of THAT money could have been used to supprot better V.A. programs? Just a thought.
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