Just been reading about the US Primarys:
"Mr Obama has seen his campaign funds swell since the start of the year, with $32m of contributions reported in January.
He is now running TV advertisements in 20 of the states which will be voting in primaries on Tuesday.
His opponent has yet to release figures for the past month, but the Clinton campaign says it raised $26.8m in the last three months of 2007." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7221388.stm
This adds up to about £29m. I read in the times yesterday that Rudy Giuliani, who pulled out had spent £25m on his failed bid to be the republican candidate.
"Today, the month-long January transfer window closed shutters for the season, with English clubs spending a record £100m on approximately 50 transfer deals, eclipsing the £81m spent two years ago, and the £63m last year. http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080131/sports/sports4.html.
Has the world finally gone mad, can it keep pushing it's self in this way! The economy in the US is heading for a recession and the UK's is slowing down. Can we continue to justify this silly, irresponsable spending.
What do we(the church) do about it? Can we do anything about it? Is our only responsability to "pick up the pieces" of the impact that our materialistic world has become or can we actually influence change on a wider scale?
Matt
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