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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