Wednesday, January 5, 2011

One Example of What We All Can Do

By now, you are pretty much aware of the story of Ted Williams. No, not the Hall of fame baseball star. I'm referring to the homeless man who stood on a street corner in Columbus, Ohio asking for help with his God-given talent of a good voice. Millions of YouTube views later, this guy found himself on network news shows, morning radio shows and mulling over several job offers including one very lucrative one with Pro Basketball's Cleveland Cavaliers which included a mortgage paid on a house. No one knew this man two days ago. Now, he is probably the biggest story of this young year, thus far. Here was a man down on his luck, homeless, suddenly seeing his life make an unexpected, enormously successful turn. Why? Because hundreds of people came up with job possibilities for this man. Hundreds of thousands wanted to help in some way. So - my question is this: Why can't we do this for other folks down on their luck as Mr. Williams has been? I'm not just talking about out of work radio DJ's. I'm talking about that 9.8% who are unemployed in our country. What if we joined together for those folks as we did for this man? That 9.8% would be considerably less, wouldn't it? Various organizations seemed to be able to find an opening for this man so maybe there are others who can do the same for the rest of the out-of-work population. Think about the possibilities. No need for government intervention.....we do it OURSELVES (thank you, Bob McNeill). Don't know any better reason as to why we are here, do you?

1 comment:

Tote said...

John, very good idea. I think we should do all we can to help people that need care. I had a friend who tried to help some homeless people in Philadelphia, and they didn't what any help. She tried to get jobs for them, and they never showed up. We have to find the people that want our help.