You’re kidding right?
It’s called an ObamaPhone™. No poor person in this country is without one. Do you know what happens to the phones and electronics you drop in that box? They wind up at the recycling service. Dismantled, melted, and ground down to make more ObamaPhones™.
What Big Daddy should be doing is saying materialism is wrong and we should be reverting back to a simpler time of necessity and unity with God’s will. Less is more.
There’s never been a “simpler time.” If people didn’t have consumer goods in the good old days, it was simply because they didn’t exist, not that they didn’t want things.
The problem now is not what we have, but the fact that we need a spiritual framework for our lives, an answer to the question “why am I here and where am I going?” Whenever there existed a spiritual framework in the past, it was because of the preaching of Christianity, and not that of a bizarre, Marxist-Romantic vision of happily impoverished peasants bouncing around in a collective farm on Mother Earth.
He forgets that “the indigenous” are human beings like the rest of us and need the message of Christ.