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What are your ideas for solutions around helping our generation's effort to end extreme poverty in the world?
11-19-2012, 02:28 AM
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What are your ideas for solutions around helping our generation's effort to end extreme poverty in the world?
Half the world – nearly three billion people – live on less than two dollars a day. Eradicating poverty in our world will take dedication and creative thinking. What ideas do you have to contribute to the solution?

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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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The world Governments need to come up with their own versions of Government jobs programs. Have the impoverished and homeless do governmental factory type work for normal wages, not the "blown out of proportion" wages that the current workers get. They may not get rich, but with health benefits, and enough money to put good food on the table every night, it would not take long for these people to regain their financial stability.

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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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rich people money and all politicians money is to be seized by the army and the salary structure is to be changed labour money in asian countries is very low and a officer is paid highly the ratio of labour is to be brought higher so every single man can live atleast a general. this can only be done by a great dictators democracy can't do it .It is failed in asian courntries they are doing very little and it will take generation to change.
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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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I'm not sure we ever really can. Education, I believe can be a key to helping but then does everyone want to be educated? Then there is the issue of the poor having an inordinate amt of mental & physical disorders that go untreated. So between the 2 there may be a cure for poverty but then where are you going to get the money to finance all this?
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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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Give them a proper economy and get rid of the dollar (dreadful currency) and wipe out India, China and most of Africa - that's the way!
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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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To me, the answer is in free trade and minimum government. Any government program takes more money and does less with it than any non-profit foundation would ever consider, let alone a profit-making corporation. If we were not wasting resources doing pork barrel projects, salaries for government employees who are counterproductive, and law enforcement for laws that are unjust and don't need enforcement, we'd have plenty of money in our own pockets. Those who have jobs and can work would not mind contributing to legitimate charitable institutions if they weren't being drained for wasteful government programs.

As to free trade, the big thing here is that people in the developed countries tend to enjoy the arts and crafts of the less developed countries, and would love to travel and buy up hand-made treasures if there weren't so many problems. Also, free trade greatly reduces militarism: you don't want to shoot your market or your supplier!

As to those who rail about wealthy people "tying up" wealth; that's nonsense. Wealthy people put their money to work, they don't let it sit in a vault doing nothing, like Scrooge McDuck. They invest in all sorts of things, and those investments are productive and hire people and make things people need. There's plenty of wealth in the world if we'd just stop wasting it on bloated bureaucracies.

As to limited resources, the obvious thing is creative recycling. Here again, poor countries can teach the more developed countries a thing or three about using resources like scrap metal, recycled plastics and glass, etc., and develop new arts and technologies that can be sold all over the world. Did you know plastic bottles can be recycled into fabrics for clothing?
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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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I'm sorry, but there are not enough resources to end extreme poverty. If you ended it in one place it would crop up somewhere else. Look at it as an opportunity to help and nothing else. Don't let your vision sway you from helping someone, anyone, anytime.
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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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Jesus said that "you will always have the poor with you." But He also said to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and take care of "the least of these." Following the teachings of Christ will solve any problem. =)
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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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I think our Fearless leaders need to stop contributing money to these third world countries, that might I add more then 70% of the time do not support the US, and use that money to help the Veterans of the US Armed forces that are now considered outcast of the world that live on the streets. Also to use that extra money to help the other homeless people on the streets.
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11-19-2012, 02:37 AM
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Quite frankly, I don't see our generations effort in helping the poor. The ME and X generation are only concerned about their pocket books and could care less on who they have to crawl over to make money. Given they screw their own employees, you aren't going to get anything from them.

I don't know, we need to educate people that his world is not theirs to take and take and take!

The UN's, one of them, is to end poverty, but we barely participate.

And it isn't only poverty. It's disease.

There is no quick fix, but it seems those of moderate means are going to have to use many agencies in place.

One of the big issues is the bribery it takes to get anything through.

Governments don't seem willing to do it, they are more interested in building subs with multiple war head nuke missiles on them!

I guess we are going to have to do it our selves. One way would be to unite and force the administration to get involved in the issue or be voted out of office,

Perhaps we need a few websites where we can go to help.

What we don't need are more agencies that say they help but keep 95 cents of every dollar.

We keep letting the greedy get a way with murder. Many is this country are poor and most of the people in this country are 2 paychecks from poverty!

Nothing is easy, but as a group of people world wide maybe a difference can be made!

I mean does the CEO of Anthem really need a 2 Million dollar salary and a 12 million dollar bonus a year, and out insurance rates keep going up!
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