It’s the Treasure. It’s Not the Blood . . . 0
. . . that has the capacity to outrage. Rosemary and Walter Brasch take a look at what does and doesn’t have the power to spark outrage amongst Americans:
And why are we outraged? Because it’s money.
As homeless children sleep beneath bridges, as millions desperate for work are told to go home and collect a pittance in unemployment, as innocent Iraqis die, as young soldiers return without limbs, as our earth is being destroyed, we sit and yawn through the news, desensitized to the horror. But, sadly, the one thing we react to, the driving impetus to contact our legislators, and the one thing that moves us to outrage is money.
