Hard to Believe

There are many things I don't understand. And one of those things is that if someone can throw a ball really really hard, baseball teams will send hookers and piles of blow to any country in the world to drag the guy here and keep him here; be it legal or otherwise. Yet the people that have made $176,000,000 off of Slumdog Millionaire can bring the kids who starred in it over to America for a collective "Awwwwwwww!!!" moment at the Oscars, so that even MORE people run to go see it, and then ship the kid right back to the fucking slum. $176M, and they can't pass the hat for some Red Roof Inn money til they can do something permanent? I know I'm in Naiveland here, and I know you can't save all the kids in the slums, but this is really heartbreaking. We spend a lot of time and money going around the world trying to shove our way of living on other nations, and yet here's a kid who really could pull off a version of the "American Dream," but I guess we're just not that interested.