One of our favorite, do-not-miss television programs is ‘CBS
Sunday Morning’. It is a magazine-type
program, with segments on so many things, of which some are funny, some are
informative, and some are poignant. Back
on August 30,2015, the program featured a piece on the Katrina aftermath. There have been many articles on television
and in the newspapers and magazines about last year being the tenth anniversary
of the hurricane called Katrina and the aftermath of failed levees in New
Orleans that caused an old and storied American city to be devastated.
But one story in particular was extra special. Special because a military veteran and his
wife have invested all of their savings, everything they had, to open and run a
grocery store in a very low-income area, the Ninth Ward, the place that
suffered the worst after Katrina. And
the place that is still suffering ten years afterward. For instance, without this one grocery store,
there would simply be no place for a great distance to buy food. Not only that, but the next plan of this
couple is to open a washateria, and they have other plans and dreams as
well. Why? Because they are determined to be part of the
solution for an area so terribly devastated and trying so hard to recover.
There are many wealthy people in this world who could have
done this sort of thing, but they did not.
They could have at least contributed to the area, but they did not. What the wealthy do not realize or
remember: they became wealthy because of
the society and the economy, and they can be destroyed by that same economy if
they do not encourage society and the economy by doing their fair share.
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