We better wake up!

I read and watch CNN everyday like alot of people. I am sure that many government administrations have the same facts that we read each and everyday. How long do you have to read or hear the same thing before you take some kind of action. Poor people all over the world are tired of being poor for one but most of all they are tired that their families are starving! When people reach the point of despair there is a trickle down effect that will happen for sure. One is protests and riots, the second is crime. It's funny, usually when there is an increase in crime no one ties it to an increase to another problem.

I hope when you read the below article that it makes you think about where we are in this nation and around the world. We better learn to take care of one another and we better learn that when you you put capitalism above caring for the human race we are headed for some serious problems.

(CNN) -- Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.

"The finance ministers were in shock, almost in panic this weekend," he said on CNN's "American Morning," in a reference to top economic officials who gathered in Washington. "There are riots all over the world in the poor countries ... and, of course, our own poor are feeling it in the United States."

World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said the surging costs could mean "seven lost years" in the fight against worldwide poverty.

"While many are worrying about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs, and it is getting more and more difficult every day," Zoellick said late last week in a speech opening meetings with finance ministers.

"In just two months," Zoellick said in his speech, "rice prices have skyrocketed to near historical levels, rising by around 75 percent globally and more in some markets, with more likely to come. In Bangladesh, a 2-kilogram bag of rice ... now consumes about half of the daily income of a poor family."

The price of wheat has jumped 120 percent in the past year, he said -- meaning that the price of a loaf of bread has more than doubled in places where the poor spend as much as 75 percent of their income on food.