Sunday, December 3, 2017

Ending Global Poverty


The world is divided into developed countries and “developing” countries.  Most of the developed countries have stable governments and adequate defense. They are industrialized and involved in global trade.  Developed countries can fail and become “developing” countries if they run out of cash. So excessive government spending and borrowing can result in defaults on government debt and crash their economies.  We’ve seen this in Venezuela and earlier in Greece and before in Argentina.

 

Some “developing” countries are improving. Some of the “Eastern-Block” countries that were once satellite countries in the Soviet Union are becoming developed like Poland. Most of the “developing” countries are poor and not improving. These are third-world countries, where most of their population lacks the resources to improve.

 

The governments of third-world countries need to reform their policies to allow its citizens to be self-supporting. Normally these poor countries have foreign investors extracting raw materials from their countries and that generates revenue for the governments of these countries.

 

So, poor countries actually have two economies. The wage economy that earns its money running raw material extraction for foreign companies and the “villages” where the “poor” are expected to feed and house themselves.

 

The governments of these poor countries tend to cater to the businesses that provide revenue, but they leave the “villages” and the bulk of their population to fend for themselves. These governments do spend money on their military.

 

Theses governments need to look at their laws and regulations and relax these enough to allow the “village” people to build a local economy.  Some of these countries could export the food they grow to generate revenue for families in the “villages”.  

 

They also need to look at how poor villagers currently live and what basic needs should be improved. Often there is no clean water or sanitation and they have medical problems associated with this. They may need to occupy more land to farm and have access to rivers and lakes and be able to dig irrigation ditches.

 

Often these countries have no laws that allow villagers to buy their own land and they need to establish private property rights for citizens.

 

Each country needs to deal with their limitations. Some have little arable land for farming or livestock grazing. Some have been established to be dependent on fishing.

 

The governments of these countries are responsible for dealing with these limitations. The citizens of these countries are responsible for improving their family’s self-sustainability.

 

The UN has it wrong. We do not need to take unskilled migrants and send money back to their home countries. This just continues the trap of making these countries dependent on charity and prevents them from becoming self-supporting. Their refugees need to go back to their home countries to help rebuild them.

 


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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