Why can't these rich celeberties sponser a few thousand kids?
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Madonna collects babies. Soon she'll have one from each continent.\n\nParis just collects little rat-dogs.
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She's nothing special. The only reason she's famous is because of her family's money. Just another example of  a spoiled rich kid. Trailer trash living in a mansion.
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I sympathize, but there are so many celebrities who already represent this cause, I'm not sure if you're going to get anywhere with them.  Try working in your local community to get funding.
799047
Although it may seem like the celebs have it all, but they don't have something you and I have: Privacy.  They can't go shopping in a baseball cap and ponytail without someone taking their picture and writing a caption that they are depressed or something.  They can't take their children to Disney Land without being attacted by fans.  Yes, the money would be nice, but I would not want my family to be disrupted by the fame.
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There is no amouint of money that can sufficiently pay those who mold the thinking and lives of the future ... think about it ... teachers show the way to those who become the future parents, doctors, police, judges, scientists, world leaders, etc.\n\nAnyone out there who doesn't understand the value of the work of a teacher after reading the previous posts, please go to the site I've attached and read "Three Letters from Teddy".  They say it all!
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Saw something of interest on TV yeasterday that could work with a school if adapted. Parents could be asked to give each of their children £5 or so. They take the £5 and look to make as much money as possible with it over a two week period (as long as it is not illegal or anything and possibly to be approved by a teacher) - eg - buy a bucket and sponge and offer to wash the cars down their street for a small fee etc etc. Kids could club their £5s together if they wish. At the end of it they can give the £5 back to their parents or put it into the final pot of money to go to the school. Possibly offer a prize for the children who make the most money. Could really engage the children and the parents in the cause?\nHope this might be of help.
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Why don't you send some begging letters to celebrities. The likes of Victoria Beckham or Ian Wright or David Bowie....for example. Phil Collins is renowed for giving his money away. Michael Winner, spends £20,000 on his annual family vacation to Barbados... go on, give it a go.\n\nThey have tons of cash to give away.\n\nGood luck with it.
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I agree with the concept of your complaint. However, there are many celebs that do donate a decent amount of money (it is a tax benefit to do so, so of course they do!). Many even have their own foundations. \n\nHowever, you are correct in that they tell us to conserve, use less, donate, etc etc and then jet around in private jets, Hummers, air condition 12,000 square foot homes, have yachts and fleets of cars, and the sordid list goes on. That is what I find to be even worse. Conservation is fine for the peons, but certainly not for the demi-god celebs!
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I don't think rich people are always stingy.  Bill Gates and Oprah, two of the richest people in the world, donate millions of dollars to good causes.
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I think they MAKE that much.  They just don't EARN it.  Teachers should be paid more, and celebs who just look good with few talents (ahem, Ms. Ritchie and friends) should make a lot less.
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That's a difficult one. Often when you hear stories of entertainers and athletes demanding millions it does sort of make your stomach churn, because you fell "how very, very greedy of them" and "that their salaries could feed several villages in both Africa and Central America".\n\nHaving said that I hugely admire Angelina Jolie's ethic which is to donate a third of her wages to charities. If people such as David and Victoria Beckham, Wayne Rooney's girlfriend (Coleen whatever) and many of the other celebrities were to spend less time indulging in such overly excessive spending and show a little compassion to those less fortunate than themselves then I woud feel they deserved their huge salaries.\n\nI was sent a mini documentary clip last night which made me think about the inequities which exist in our society. How someone can go out and spend thousands on a handbag whilst people are eating "mudcakes in Haiti". Here's the clip:\n\nhttp://hotzone.yahoo.com/\n\nStrange world we live in....
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I would say because people do not realize the full extent of how important teachers are, because without them who are you to say you would be who you are today.  I would say that the world is too caught up on celebrities and sports and things like that, that make so much more money it is ridiculous.  So I would have to say that people do not realize the importance of teachers and the amount of money they get paid, when the reward (their students) is priceless.
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Posh and Becks working for childrens charities? Don't make me laugh, imagine how many children they could have helped with the £20000 they spent on a birthday party for one of their own children? They don't seem like the charitable type to me they are to materialistic and like to flaunt it too much as well.
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Celebrities believe that they are the royalty of America.  They love to gripe and complain about the injustices of poverty but they don't seem to be willing to do much about it other than be a paid spokesperson.  How many people could J-Lo feed if she used the money she spent on those earings and gave it to the poor?  How many people could celebrities help if they didn't have to own 7 Million dollar mansions and private islands?  They are hypocrits and arrogant.\nMost of them are also un-educated (only about 2% of them have college degrees), and they believe that they are morraly superior to the common person in America.  Again that shows their hypocrisy and ignorance.\nBut people continue to support them so maybe, just maybe that makes us more ignorant than they are... and maybe that's why they tend to look down their noses at the "common people".
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Not everyone does. Those who give in to all the stories and lives of the Celebrities are usually younger people (tweens and teens) and those who attach themselves to fantasy rather than the reality of their own lives.
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spioled rich kids with too much time on their hands.
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Some people are given many talents, others only a few.  You can choose which pf your talents you want to use and develop them as you go on in life.  Nobody has every gift, and nobody has none.  Also it's not about which gifts you have but how you use them.