POVERTY

So, the powers that be in Myanmar have decided they don't want the help of the U.N. or anyone else, and they're going to hoard the food supplies for themselves rather than take care of their own people. Why am I not surprised by this?

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I at times get nauseated when I think of all the money some individuals have. Take Mr. Bill Gates for example. The last time I heard he had amassed over $50 billion dollars. Why would anyone need so much money? It just doesn't make much sense to have a huge house with more rooms in it than he could possibly manage. And to top it off, when he dies he won't take one penny of it with him. Why that means that $500 million dollars to him would be like 1 penny out of a single dollar. If all the money in the world was equally divided among all the people of the world, everyone would get $144,000 each!! Yet these rich fatcats are living high off the hog while the rest of us are languishing in utter poverty! Yes I know Bill and other extremely wealthy persons are supposedly giving to various charities and causes some of which are just a waste of money that could help some very needy people but I now challenge any wealthy people out there who reads this post to have some serious soul searching and consider the foolish rich man in Luke 12:

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Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, and or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. Since poverty is understood in many senses, these essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter, or they may be social resources such as access to information, education, health care, social status, political power, or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society.

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Hey! You! Over there!
Can you smell my dirty hair?!
Do you hate what I wear?!
Who told you to care?!
Turn away and don’t stare!

What do you know about
A life that is a constant bout
A life that there seems no doubt

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29.01.2007

copied from a post on U2's Official Website: http://www.u2.com

'Africa - An Opportunity Not A Burden'
Bono has challenged the governments of the richest countries to deliver on their promises to fight poverty and disease in the poorest countries.

Speaking to political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said he remained optimistic that the rich world would deliver on its 2005 commitments to cancel the debts of poor countries and double aid to African countries by 2010.

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I’ve just finished sifted through the freezer and the kitchen, looking for food that we can spare. I’ve come up with a lot, a frozen pork tenderloin, muffin mix, spaghetti sauce, frozen hamburger and some weight control oatmeal that I’ll never touch to name a few.

This time of year many of us are looking through our cabinets gathering can goods for the less fortunate. For me this year my sister is one of the less fortunate. I’m packing up all of these “goods� to bring over to my sister’s house.

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The message was urgent. It was sent late in the night and was addressed to all, especially the women. "Be careful. When you see a child crying, take that child to the police station. Don't mind the address he is giving. It's only a ploy."
It reported the latest of capers the foolish of this world had cooked up. It explained the modus operandi even. Translated from Tagalog, it said -

A young child would be found in a corner crying as though lost. When approached, the child would provide an address. If you take that child to that address, once you press the doorbell, you would be shocked out of your senses and then dragged inside. There you would be robbed and raped. The child crying is actually a lure.

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Money is a means to better the world.I mused on a hot summer day, whether the billions Bill Gates' charity has to spend on the worlds needy and now Warren's, will actually make a difference? I pondered what would I do to change the world for the better if I had such funds? I bounced some of my world solutions off my brother while we waited on Sunday dinner.
I decided that the best use of the billions would be to build infrastructure in the neediest thirld world countries.

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It's the height of summer, the weather is warm, the leaves are green and the impulse to shop is motivated more by the wish to stay cool than it is by any desire to share seasonal goodwill. Our thoughts are probably as far away from Yuletide as they could be, but already that season's shadow is on the horizon, lurking like some obese cruise-liner. The old woman in your life has probably already began to hoarde her pennies in preparation for a August attack on the Summer sales -- a few DVDs for her nephews, a few thin and redundant-in-Winter socks for her grand-children. She's a canny lass. She knows exactly what she wants and where she'll get it, those inspired Christmas Gifts. 'Tis a shame, because a little education might reform her ill-gotten ways. There must be a better way?

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New World Order

The goal of corporations today is the eventual reduction of $60,000/yr. jobs to $20,000/yr pay scale. Now I’m sure that will do wonders for profits which will be divided among the 5,000 millionaires and 500 billionaires. Who knows, maybe there will eventually only be billionaires and the rest of us. In feudal times there were the lords and the peasants; is that what our wealthy long for---the good ‘olde days?

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I just read a long blog and a handful of the responses about why gay people shouldn't be allowed to have kids. One responder floated the oft-stated idea that people should all be licensed before being allowed to raise children, and poverty would be one of the discriminating factors against.

Why?

Granted, poor people have a harder time finding adequate medical care, keeping enough food in the house, keeping fuel in the gas tank, hell, even keeping a car to keep fuel in. And yes, socioeconomic status is statistically the greatest factor in a child's life in regards to completion of school and financial success in the future.

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In the blogging world, people are beautiful. If they are not, they pretend to be. Most are educated, at least with college degrees. Most have wealth, at least to middle class standards. Or if they do not they have expectations of changing that, if not now then soon.

But there is another world. One that appears seldom in the blogosphere. And when it does, it's usually in the third person, not the first. A news item to be reported. A sad tale presented for mutual hand-wringing, bonding the well-dressed with "we're all right after all" before each one gets into a separate van to drive to the bar. A sound bite that doesn't, because it has no place in the experience of the hearer to latch onto.

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CONTEXT:
A Routers report about plight of workers in UK.
Brief gist:

1. 1 out of 4 British workers are going for double jobs to pay off their debts or just to get going.

2. 60% of British workers, particularly in FINANCE AND EDUCATION sector want to reduce their weekly work hours.

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A month ago, I spent some time with my mother and sister on Cape Cod. I didn’t get to see them over Christmas, but business took me back East in January, so I grabbed a couple of days. My mother - well, you never know when the next visit will be the last. Both are shopaholics, and I was wandering through a mall humoring their addiction when I chanced to notice a Samsonite outlet store. Everything half off. I checked with my resident experts, who gave the thumbs up, and I walked off with a new suitcase. Which is good, because, as is usual when I pass through home sweet home, I had a lot more stuff to lug back than I originally lugged out.

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