The tragic truth is people are dying as the world’s cultures and economies shake themselves trying to find an equilibrium. The search for equilibrium or at least a rough justice in essential life resource distribution, as we have seen, has been undone by something as simple as greed or more biblically ‘avarice’. The salve we apply to our conscience in the world’s resource distribution has been humanitarian aid to developing countries and nations. Our Administration denies their cutting of aid has resulted in deaths. This morning the Good Decision offers some numbers that shows this to be a lie or staggering ignorance at the highest level and if we do nothing about the cuts to aid we are directly contributing to what this writer would call ‘Passive Deaths’. No, the people don’t die passively. They die hard. The passiveness is us numbing our conscience and doing nothing. Not responding is accepting the transparent lie because we as a nation could offer this help and more if we really wanted. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times is an experienced, on-sight, and disciplined reporter at the point of impact and he provides us this data. 

An “impact counter” developed by an economist estimates that about 300,000 people have died so far from the reductions in American assistance, two-thirds of them children. The death toll is said to be rising at a rate of 103 per hour.

Good can happen when our economy finds wisdom over whining. Humanists, patriots, and people of faith get organized into a majority for we as a nation cannot remain passive in the face of this lie and these deaths.