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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Is that the only thing you take from Gore's message and work? That we should drive hybrids?
Sorry but I don't see how "less poor people" is a "cure" for the poverty that made them poor. I'd say ineffective/corrupt government is a big factor. Nations with shitloads of oil should never have such abyssmal poverty but they do. Putting latex on the men will not change this at all. Same goes for countries rich in other resources (gems). None of it the fault of the American right wing, sorry.
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There is no wealth redistribution cure for poverty. Nor is there a market or political/governmental cure. See: Communism, Socialism. The best we have is band-aids like welfare, which I support. What we need is a plan that also stops new poor from being created. There will always be people with a lot and people with none. That's the human animal in action. Using that reality as a baseline, isn't the better course to try to lower the population of the poor? If there are less poor people reproducing there are less poor people.
"Curing" poverty in the sense any politician or policy wonk talks about is just, I don't know... Some sort of crazy utopian gibberish. Nonsense that makes people think such a war on human nature is even worth fighting. Its one of those dumb fictions a lot of people refuse to give up because they don;t want to look at reality and what we are and what kind of societies we naturally create. Silliness. Yes, we can and should do something about it. But curing it?
