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P.S.: Poverty Solutions
By dan | February 17, 2009
Hello Philipeans, I have some very great American friends and relatives in the Philipeans. Although we never met – my heart and spirit are with you all. God Bless you!
Back around October 2008 there was this day called Global Blog Action day whereby bloggers world-wide focused their electronic presses on espousing different views about Global Poverty.
There are many reasons for poverty in such a world of vast wealth we live on. All the causes aside – I want to look at solutions for poverty. Debating causes for poverty will never change the life of someone living in poverty this very minute so lets look beyond causes at solutions.
In a more perfect world we might live in a world where food is freely and easily accessible for all. We might see factories where different grains are delivered for processing into foods, or vegetables are canned, or meats are processed. From there they would be delivered to a market somewhere nearby your community for distribution to you.
Trouble is as we all know, and no pun is intended, “There never is any Free Lunch.” Someone must foot the bill. Someone must pay the land owner for the property where the construction workers are paid to build the factory which pays the food workers who perform the operation of the factory who then pays a driver for shipping the finished food products to a nearby market which is owned by someone else and on and on… in short this is capitalism at work.
An alternative to the capitalist method is the socialist / communist method whereby this entire process is performed by the prevailing government. An example would be if the United States began producing food in government owned and operated processing plants built by government construction workers for putting government food workers to work. A government owned trucking company would pick up the finished product and deliver it to a government owned facility where the general population is distributed their share.
Trouble with the last method is you still need money. Remember, no free lunch? So where will that money come from?
Not credit. Credit is the reason why the global economic crisis is where it is. Its not credit alone. It’s the poor use of credit.
Credits out. How about printing money out of thin air? We can do that. Seems this gov has been doing this a long time. Porkulus is not something only democrats do. Republicans do it, democrats do it, liberals, do it, libertarians do it.
Porkulus spending is not only connected to a certain religious group either. You can be hard-core atheist, Southern Black Baptist as opposed to Southern White Baptist, Catholic, Mormon… it doesn’t matter. Reckless government spending as a whole is one of the major contributors to poverty.
$800,000,000,000 dollars and not one of those dollars will feed a hungry woman selling her body on the street tonight because she wants to buy groceries for her children at home.
Not one of those dollars will make a difference in the life of the old guy with that long shaggy beard standing out on the side of a road tonight holding up his sign that says “I will Work For Food.”
So what will help these people? Certainly not governments… but people can help these people.
If you are out and about and see someone who looks like they can use a helping hand, and you can do it because you have the resources, you should do it. Don’t wait for capitalism, don’t wait for socialism or communism or religion – you do it.
The only other solution to poverty I can think of would mean dissolving the usage of money in trade as we know it today. It would mean the destruction of capitalism. Or would it?
For now I think I’ve gone as far as I can take these thoughts.
Stay warm friends – it’s snowing where I am. I doubt it is snowing in the Philipeans but stay warm anyway. 
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Topics: Global Blog Action Day 2008, Global Poverty, Solutions | Comments Off
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