How to make a difference- and will we ever?

A few weeks ago, a friend told me about the cost of the AIG bailout. According to the math he was given, if we took the amount of money used to bail out AIG and gave it to all those in this country 18 and over, each person would get $278,000. I think that would be a better use of the money personally.

This morning, Matt & Carol on WMIT (106.9 in most of NC) suggested that candidates (or one candidate) give up the rest of their advertising budget to actually help individuals in need. I KNOW that would change my mind about their desire to really change things.

I really believe that less government would be better for more people.

But as a believer, the question comes down to me.

Will I actually change the money I spend, and the things I do, to make a difference? Or will I follow the bad example of our government and throw more money, time and energy at less useful things?
What if we rediscovered the joy of Jesus, of Francis, the delight of a child (and our very creative God) and tried to do things that just made Kingdom sense with our time, energy and talent? What if we tried to change the world, as agents of God's love, every day?
Now that's a cause I believe in- and it will change the world much mroe than whoever takes office in January!