The Economic Problem

While reading Jim’s blog about “the economic problem” I was thinking about my trip to Harambe Town, Kenya, Africa in 2013.  It was a mission trip and human aid and relief project.  The children had no manufactured toys of any kind.  The people had colorful clothing but not an abundance of anything.  The people we met were industrious, selling food like kale, dried fish, and supplies in the market place to meet their daily needs.  We visited a sugar mill where we were shown how to make brown sugar from sugar cane.  My husband is a family physician.  He treated over 500 indigent people, mostly with chronic ailments, in three days.  Those people were in pain due to the hard-working labor they do every day out in the fields.   I think about all of the things that we Americans want every day.  This is a real problem when we have so much already compared to the Kenyan’s I met in Africa.  People really suffer badly and it makes me ashamed of my own greed.