The most valuable resource the world has is its children. Not the air, nor the water, nor the oil, nor the farmable land, nor the military might of any country but its children. If you want to breath clean air, drink clean water, reduce the world's dependancy on polluting products, teach the children. If wars and inner city crimes and senseless murders around the world are ever to be eliminated, teach the children. If the focus of everyone from governments to the schools to the family living rooms were how to communicate effectively, resolve interpersonal issues, and use our resources wisely and effectively, it is going to start with the children. Children will emulate and grow up to become what we teach them by our example and actions. If this world is ever to see another generation worth the name "humanity", teach the children. It is our only hope, it is our final hope.
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Abject poverty affects literally billions of people on the planet each and every day. It has been suggested by those economists who studied and named the problem the "Culture of Poverty", that a redistribution of wealth and power to the poor would somehow make things right with the world. The only issue with re-distributing wealth and power to the poor is that governments never address the original problem which is why they are poor in the first place.
People who have fallen into unfortunate circumstances beyond their control are a rare exception. No one chooses poverty, however people do continue in poverty due to lack of educational means, inability to recognize opportunities, and sadly enough, general laziness. In the United States I have heard from countless people living in deplorable conditions, "I get assistance from the government every month, why should I get a job?" In short, that is the government redistributing American wealth, in the form of taxes, to the poor. Job training and educational vouchers have proven marginally successful. Until governments focus on the desperation/poverty mentality, and focus on changing the attitudes and thinking of those in poverty, handing the poor money is the equivalent of tossing it into the sea. Those clutching to communism have tried to redistribute the wealth to the poor and have found an appreciation by those who were gifted, albeit short lived, total resistance from those whose wealth was seized, and at the end of the day, the collapse of the entire system as everyone fell into poverty as has been evidenced by the Cuban attempt at communism. Until the core issue is addressed, the poverty's desperation mentality, neither the free capitalist market,, the communist manifesto, or any monarchy will ever be a solution to the problem. Teaching the poor how to help themselves whether that be via honest NGOs and other non-profit groups, government initiated classes or private sector training, with strong encouragements to do so, combined with serious counseling regarding how to jettison the poverty mentality and how to adapt to a new and better life which is self created and reinforced with strong consequences for a lack of effort to adhere to the efforts toward them is the only answer and the only solution that will produce effectual and lasting results. |
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