Poverty Reduction. Would Going Smart Perhaps Be Better?

What if everyone on earth each contributed a dollar in the span of one year to help the poor. Would be really feel the cost individually?  I say this, because I keep on asking myself why must a few people make so much and then give it out to the poor, at their own expense, to help make the donor concept work. Isn't that just ridiculous!

  What if countries did collect that money and voted on alleviating at least housing problems for the whole world, for a start.  Would we really feel that cost?

Would anyone including children fail to get a sponsor to help them raise a dollar in a year? And how much would that be, considering we are about six and a half billion people on earth? I hate to get into the nitty-gritty details and criticism to the idea. But think about it seriously. Six billion, four hundred million dollars a year at no great cost to the contributors!

The the reason I raise this point is that there aren't enough rich men willing to forfeit their wealth to help sort out the poverty problem, once and for all. The few that have the heart, have to constantly monitor the monies otherwise it gets taken away by the haves, somewhere in the process.

Think of it this way. If the “haves” of a country cannot help their own “have nots,” how do you expect the “haves” from another country to succeed in doing so? Furthermore, we still have to consider and ensure that the “have nots” don't ride to the devil when they indeed get the money. 

 Going about the poverty problem without looking at other critical factors, like entrepreneurship, is akin to trying to fill up a bath tub by merely opening the taps at full blast without putting the bath plug in place or stopping the leakages; for that matter. At the end of it all, you achieve very little for so much effort. 

Other critical factors could be literacy levels, peaceful co-existence and getting rid of detrimental cultural practices. It's futile to make a poor man in my village rich, only to have him marry other wives; more often breaking up his home or simply adding more mouths to feed. 

Unless we get rid of the follies fueling poverty, this is a war we can't win. Remember the HIV virus, among other disease causing organisms, is also trying to survive. Think about it!

"Regards,

John Lerrato
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