To: The Dallas Morning News
Date:  November 22, 2001
Subject: Wealthy people should be generous
Result: not printed due to limited space

Dear Editor,

 I think starting about now is a good time for all the people in America and in Dallas who have been lucky enough to acquire great wealth to start giving it away. All the well-publicized needs and shortfalls, currently, for things like food and toys for Christmas could easily be met by the wealthly people in the cities in which they reside.

That a country with all the wealth that we enjoy should have such great need within its borders is disgraceful. What September 11 has taught us is how lucky we are. Right? Let's share what we have.

You don't have to have "great wealth". Anybody with, at the minimum, 2 or 3 million dollars or more ought to be very generous. But it is the people with hundreds of millions or billions who, together, could address all the world's deprivation. And that would provide a world that would be much to their advantage to live in. That is, it doesn't matter how rich you are if you're in a big building doing business and somebody comes and blows you  up, inspired largely by the poverty of where he came from.

Thank you, John Vehon