Funny thing. I could'nt sleep so I went through my e-mails. Well, I checked out my sent items and saw this message. I sent it to Oprah Winfrey last year, when I was 17 years old :) haha. Enjoy reading it.
ps : yeah it sounds kinda funny, but my mom did cry reading it. Hehe. I love you ma.
HYE OPRAH :)
I'm Arianna, a seventeen-year-old girl from Malaysia. I am such a big fan of Beyonce till I can't explain how she has enriched my life with her beautiful songs. My sister and I screamed joyfully as we read your bulletin about Beyonce's fan. All my family members would'nt be having our dinner without watching 'The Oprah Winfrey Show'.
I will be having my SPM examination (O-level) by next week. It has been a very tough year for me and I would really like to thank my mom. She has been very patient with my behaviour. I could'nt find any other way to thank her for making me the luckiest girl in the world beside asking her idol to meet her. She can't even miss a single episode of your show.
My mom took a heritage celebrity morph in a website. It was very shocking and funny as the result showed that she looks 93% like Beyonce. I was really out of words as there is nothing about Beyonce that is physically similar to my mom as she is a mix of Chinese and Pattani. Since then, she's been listening to Beyonce's songs (expecially Listen) and adoring her achievements in life. I could imagine her crying with excitement if she could ever be in your show. She would'nt be the only one who'll do the crying part I think, but my whole family and I myself.
My mom has never been to overseas except for Bangkok. She always imagine herself having some fun in a different environment. This is a great opportunity for me to accomplish her dreams and put a smile on her beautiful face. She is the greatest mother in the world and it would be the best thing I could do for her. She's taking her PhD now and yet she still do her best for her childrens. I am very thankful that she's in my life. I really hope you'll provide us a space in your great show. It will be the best time ever in my mom's life. Thank you Oprah.
Sincerely,
Arianna
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This depression is going to get a lot worse for most of us. Millions will go cold and hungry. It didn't have to be this way. Greed ruins everything. Its true. Ask any professor of economics.
"As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery. Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. This served them as capital accumulations. But by taking purchasing power out of the hands of mass consumers, the savers denied to themselves the kind of effective demand for their products that would justify a reinvestment of their capital accumulations in new plants. In consequence, as in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped."
Marriner Eccles, FDR's Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank - 1959
In other words, the first Great Depression was caused by greed. The rich couldn't settle for reasonable pay. They had to have more and more and more. That caused a shift in buying power from the majority to the rich. When the majority lost their buying power, they lost their ability to support the economy. Einstein said basically the same thing in 1949.
Its even worse now. Ordinary people havn't only lost their relative buying power. They have also lost their savings, home values, pensions, and benefits. Meanwhile, the rich have become super incredibly rich. The richest 500 Americans are worth about 2 trillion dollars. More than the bottom 40% of American housholds combined. The richest 1 percent are worth about 18 trillion dollars. More than the bottom 98% of American households combined. Thats just insane. I don't care how much work for humanity the rich claim to do. Its nothing but a cover for their own greed. We don't need anymore rich people to create jobs or make donations for charity. We need them to get reasonable about how much money and assets they keep for themselves.
Don't believe their excuse about paying more income taxes. They don't pay enough. For every tax the rich pay, they get an obscene profit, bailout, contract, or kickback from our government to cover it. We had a progressive tax system that worked for over 40 years after the first Great Depression. It prevented too much wealth from being concentrated. In 1976, the middle 80% owned about 2/3 of America's total wealth. Reagan lowered taxes for the rich. Bush lowered them again. Now, the richest 5% own about 2/3 of America's total wealth. The lower 95% own about 1/3. America's wealth has been transfered from poor to rich again. Now, we have another depression.
Don't believe it when the rich claim to be getting poorer. Property values have gone down for everyone. Thats because of the concentration of wealth and income. When the economy slows down, property values tank. So when rich people complain about lower net worth, its a trick. They still have the same buying power on average.
Too much wealth has already been taken away from the majority and concentrated into the private vaults of rich people. The same ones on TV telling us how much they want to help the world. Its a big lie. Just another way to promote their own names. Rich people don't want to help the world. They want to own it.
Now, the economy is ruined. Obama can't fix it because the rich won't let him. There will be no bailout for the people because the rich won't let it happen. They always want more. The same thing has been happening in other economies around the world. The world's rich have been getting richer. Now, we have a global recession. Its going to get a lot worse. It didn't have to be this way. Greed ruins everything.
Please copy and spread the word.
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