I was visiting a friend yesterday who has CSPAN. I watched a bit of the Senate Finance committee markup of its health care bill. The poverty of moral character I watched on CSPAN was every bit as shocking as the poverty in your video. You are right about these images amike. Unlike the Senate committee, the people in your video are not the slum.

Thanks.

That was a great video, amike. Ya know, it takes a while for me to download anything but it was worth the wait.

A lot of things pop into your mind when you watch....seeking a path, finding your way, looking for....whatever. Salvation, mebbe. A destination. And the people you see and meet on the way, some are obstacles, some are helpers.

Plus, any video that has a dog peeing on a garbage pile is aces in my book. ;o)

For some reason, the video brought me back to the Bruce Lee movie "Enter the Dragon". At the beginning, Williams, the black martial artist, looks around at a Hong Kong slum and some poor kids, and after a flashback of his experiences in a slum himself says: "Ghettos are alike all over - they stink."

Maybe not poignant, but there is a ring of truth. Enjoyed the video.

My first thoughts on what I witnessed

Show this film every time one of them rich banker CEO’s comes before Congress about the need for lavish bonuses. Show them “Need”

(Ephesians 4:28) 28 Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him do hard work, doing with his hands what is good work, that he may have something to distribute to someone in need. . .

If only we would recognize this admonition, we’d all be rich.

(2 Corinthians 8:14-15) . . .but that by means of an equalizing YOUR surplus just now might offset their deficiency, in order that their surplus might also come to offset YOUR deficiency, that an equalizing might take place. 15 Just as it is written: “The person with much did not have too much, and the person with little did not have too little.. . .