There's always going to be poverty

Published on June 17, 2005 By dharmagrl In Misc

I was reading with interest the current campaign by celebrities around the world to make poverty a thing of the past (www.one.org)

Do they not realize that there's always going to be poverty? That regardless of how much money is raised, how many people's living conditions are changed, that there will always be the 'haves' and the 'have nots'? Even when you bring up the basic standard of living for the world's poorest countries and peoples, they will always be living in comparative poverty.

Don't get me wrong, I think that it's a very noble cause. I just question the practicalities of it.

Comments

Gideon MacLeish

on Jun 18, 2005

Frankly, I DON'T think it's a noble cause.

If the make poverty history campaign has its way, millions more in foreign aid will be donated by first world countries to impoverished nations, who will be newly released from their debt burden. Sounds great in theory until you realize that the poverty has come about because of governmental oppression and tyrranny....more foreign aid and third world debt elimination without human rights standards and international oversight will only mean wealthier and better equipped tyrants.

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