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I just read recently that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave a huge amount of money to Iraqi children who have lost parents and loved ones during the war and I LOVE what she and Brad do for philanthropy and the millions of children in third world countries who have nothing. But the US has a mind boggleing amount of children who are homeless, abused, poor, uneducated etc and it's disgusting to see the statistics climbing every year considering we are the "powerful" rich country. It would be nice to see celebs bring attention to problems in our own backyard along with problems around the world. If we bring attention to our own problems and fix them, maybe other countries will take notice and take action. I am in no way putting down what Miss Jolie does, it shows she has a huge heart but we need to do something about our own poor population also, because they are getting ignored and the poor population is growing. I think I feel this way because I'm a Sociology major and I've seen the statistics and study them constantly within my major so it kind of bothers me how our own poor population is being passed up by celebrities AND our own government. I hope I'm not sounding like a heartless b*tch because that is totally not my intentions. I just always find it intersting that some celebs give millions of dollars away each year to 3rd world countries and are ignorant to what's happening in their own back yard.