I know you're poor. We can't help you, so good luck.

Found this on The Onion today. The headline: Concerts Held to Wish the World's Poor Good luck. I'm glad Bono was able to contribute something to poverty through his music, and I'm really glad that all the poor people can now buy music on iTunes to upload to their ipods... and balloons ALWAYS make people happy. :]

I know that proceeds go to charity and whatever. But when you look at it like this well... it does make you wonder if any of this is REALLY doing anything. Kind of like that huge Live Earth concert a while back. Was it even successful? I got bored halfway through and stopped watching. oh well.


Concerts Held to Wish the World's Poor
April 15, 2009 Issue 45•16
ROME—More than 40 artists, including U2, Death Cab for Cutie, Rihanna, and Rage Against the Machine, performed at six simultaneous concerts across the globe Saturday as part of a new benefit show to wish the world's desperately impoverished the best of luck. The $200-a-ticket event raised more than $80 million, which will be put toward thousands of good-luck cards and balloons for developing countries and a fund for future charity performances. "I hope you will all join me in extending a hand of friendship to the have-nots, shaking their hand once, and walking away," Al Gore said in a special message via satellite. "You've had it pretty bad, and it's not likely to get better. May God help you all. See ya!" Producer Quincy Jones also brought all the participating artists together to record an all-star track that will be made available to the poor through iTunes.

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