Slavery is Not Dead

I was scanning links on Drudge Report and came by a shorty article about 225,000 children being forced into slavery in Haiti because of the extreme impoverished circumstances. It disgusts me that children, particularly in third world countries, are being forced into a variety of slavery - from labor to sex slave-trading.

I remember at school for the past couple of years, we have fund-raised for organizations that help children, especially young girls, rise out of poverty and being freed from slavery. There are so many perverted people involved in the illegal sex-slave-trade of children. It makes me want to gag just thinking about situations like this - parents having to sell their own children into slavery, knowing that these little kids will become sex slaves. The fact that these situations have become so dire and drastic that families are forced to resort to these measures is also depressing.

On a side note, President Obama has openly stated that he will remain in Washington D.C. until the Health Care Bill is passed. He claims that he cannot leave the Senate while in the midst of a such a big transition. Well, thank you President Obama, for acting like a President - that is what you are, right? I wouldn't be surprised if you would have left early to go to Hawaii to spend the holidays there in a $4000/night resort; you would never spend that much money on a vacation home though, right? Right. We expect you to stay in D.C. until these critical matters regarding the Health Care Bill are dealt with, Mr. president. Don't think that you're doing something noble; these kinds of actions come with the territory of being the President of the United States.

Just saying.