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1) An additional 8 million people were just added to the poverty roles; roughly 2.5% of the population;

NOT NEAR ENOUGH
6/20/20 a Washington Post survey of the US’s 50 richest people/families, with a collective net worth of about $1.6T found their publicly announced ...
2) donations toward covid-19 relief efforts amount to about $1 billion, donations which is less than 0.1 percent of their vast personal wealth

The 1929 economic crash left thousands unemployed, poor, homeless & hungry; there were no federal programs/safety nets to help ...
3) My great grandfather, John Crouch, was arguably the wealthiest person/farmer in Jackson Co. MI; He used all his resources to feed & help all those in need; in 1935 a 2nd economic crash hit; John’s home & land were totally mortgaged, grain prices fell so low, the harvest ...
4) wasn’t worth as much the as the cost of planting it;
having lost it all, John burned his fields in protest;
in later yrs, during an interview, John was asked, "knowing what transpired & how things turned out for you, would you have acted differently?" ...
5) John adamantly said “Hell No!, those people were my friends & neighbors, whether I knew them or not, it was the right thing to do! besides, I’m doing fine”

he lived in a rented room & supported himself until his death in 1954 at age 73

your actions make you great, not $$$
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