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7/12/2008
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necessity or prosperity
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We live in a time that we give and treat problems rather than solve. How often have we been open to a problem, but never stepped out of our comfort zone to see the truth. The truth could be is that we see problems as opportunities for ourselves but never anyone else in need. I have a problem with seeing the way people in need are taken advantage of. How is it possible to realize that their are people in need and we can see it as an opportunity to lift ourselves. There are people in need around the world who are victims of people who take advantage and use them to make themselves a light, when in truth and seriousness they are just like the people through years who have kept them from resources and power over resources to many of these underdeveloped countries that have been taken. Too many times the media has portrayed or shown pictures of hands reaching out for help with the proud and mighty over them as if to say they need them. It is easy to treat a problem than it is to solve one it seems. But the truth is these people need more than just our clothes, food, and toys, they need opportunity and a chance to be a more productive people. It was said to me that I could help with just $50 dollars a month build a well. Really? In my opinion as a person who is well off but could do better, that is not the solution to a major problem. The countries that unite together every year to encourage people to give time to help out of their busy schedules, could help out much more with the power and resources they have to in a great way begin to support these countries financially to educate and rebuild their communities. This may seem some what impossible, but the millions and probably billions of dollars given a year to these countries already to in some way treat the problem or neccessitize it could be used more efficiently to give these people a chance to be leaders in their native lands. In my opinion that is the cause of most wars and why other countries to never hear our voices when we speak against world poverty, because we have been the ones who have the power over the resources and in many of these countries their resources. Keeping it from them and subsituting it with clothes, food, and toys which keep them inferior and locked up in a world of poverty. These people know what they want, we should let them speak, which we don't. All of them will say it is not material possession but a positive productive future for their people in their own native land. I don't think that is much for them to ask at all, it is only fair.
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