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Drill Against Poverty Global Blog Action Day 2008.
By dan | October 11, 2008
No one ever said “Drill Here, Drill Now, Drill Only.” Nor did anybody ever once suggest domestic expansion of oil production fields is the only way to drive prices down. I am suggesting that if our beloved political leaders really do care about us as people and not just as an average daily kickback, they might begin to initiate increased domestic drilling projects because more domestic oil drilling can help eradicate poverty one job and one worker at a time.
This October 15th 2008 is Global Blog Action Day. [ Source: Statcounter.com ] On this day bloggers all over the planet armed only with their initiatives, imaginations, keyboards and monitors are requested to engage in drawing attention to one collective global issue using blogs. This year the issue is Global Poverty.
In light of the current financial economic turmoil, I suspect some fudging of the numbers could produce results suggesting poverty has decreased this year. Stagnant wages combined with higher costs of living alone can lessen the gap between the extreme impoverished and the working class. Thus this creates an illusion those in poverty are gaining in economic stature.
However, I know no official government reporting agencies will fudge numbers.
Now after some light research on the subject of global poverty I have come to understand that poverty has nothing to do with things or possessions or money. These things help but they are not the real standard to measure for wealth and poverty. There are 100’s of diverse cultures that do not subscribe to the same symbolism of wealth our capitalistic culture subscribes to. In this respect poverty is relative by culture.
Poverty can be any deprivation. The world is in extreme poverty because it has a deprivation of sincere loving political figureheads. Many lands where people suffer even up to death it is due to deprivation of nutrition and health services funding caused by maniacal leaders. Not because the leaders don’t receive the funding. They bank it and lavish themselves with gifts and riches.
How many hundreds of millions of U.S. tax payer dollars were sent to Iraq and lost in the shuffle? They just can’t find it. How many more Billions have been appropriated in the last 50 years to starving nations just to see them today still starving? How many tons of donated food has been set aside to rot on purpose to starve a country’s citizenry?
No. Poverty is not at all symbolic of deprivation of wealth in the form of material objects. Its more accurately reflected by defining it as “the extreme deprivation of love for one’s fellow man and the morality that coincides with that love.” This my friends is real poverty.
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