Showing you have a spine?

This message popped up on my Facebook newsfeed today (courtesy of a high school acquaitance I've probabaly shared five words with):

Homeless go without eating. Elderly go without needed medicines. Mentally ill go without treatment. Troops go without proper equipment. Veterans go without benefits that were promised!! Yet we donate billions to other countries before helping our own first!!!! 1% will re-post and 99% of the people on Facebook won't have the spine or guts to re-post this to their wall. I KNOW I'm the 1%, what about you?

This sort of "awareness" thing drives me a bit nuts. I hate when people do something as inconsequential as reposting a message (which is inaccurate as well, less than 0.1% of our gross national income on foreign aid) and suddenly they feel self righteous. You really want to make a difference, how about donating your time or money? Trust me, posting something on your Facebook wall won't make a difference.