For a civilization to thrive it must have 4 things ( minimum):
1) Secure borders.
2) Honest courts and police to enforce contracts and to put criminals in prison.
3) Secure and dependable property rights.
4) A morally well-grounded and honest people with the good will to make it work.
By the way,...No one in the U.S. owns property any longer. We are instead renters to the government. If we fail to pay our property taxes, the government will evict us.
And....
A major part of all property taxes is a MASSIVE and bloated collectivist government school system that is dedicated to indoctrinating our nation's youth into worshiping godless government communism.
They have nothing better to do, I guess...
Aid mostly decreases death rate, and increases birth rate but does NOTHING to change the economic infrastructure.
Malthus ALWAYS wins that one.
As far as the Third World poor, there are likely many of them with lots of intelligence and drive, and the system makes it very hard for them to get anywhere. The system will not easily be changed because the Elites of those countries like it that way -- they don't WANT business competition from the non-Elite, so they purposefully make it hard for somebody without "connections" to prosper.
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The IDEA that our Rights come from God, not the government, and are protected by the Constitution, including freedom of speech, gun ownership, property ownership are the reasons that the USA has the been the home of prosperity.
This is the reason the the TEA Party resonates today, the return to the respect for the principles of Constitution.
Matthew 26:11 The poor you will always have with you.....
Good teaching tool ping.
What is the laws of dynamics? a body in motion tends to stay in motion, and a body still tends to stay still?
First one must have the idea, of having something they have never had, nor their father nor their relatives, nor their grandfathers, etc. An idea of something new. An expectation, a possibility, an idea of a goal, a DREAM. This is huge. It is not even a glimmer in the deepest part of the minds of impoverished peoples that have lived that way all their lives.
The idea of being paid for their work with MONEY with which to buy necessities like food and shelter, clothing, ...
When people are at the bottom ... think the untouchables in India, or the people that ‘do not exist’ in Islamic countries. How can a mind conceive of completely unknown states of being? Hope?
Conditioning follows all of us. Those that are denied everything and manage to live in the garbage pits, are fighting to live each day.
There are Nations/countries that have millions upon millions of the lowest of the low.
The United States of America has/have sent food, clothing, endless amounts of monies and most of it is kept and spent by the people in positions of power. Africa, Sudan, Korea,etc., We sent food to starving North Korea, the leaders took these products and sent them to China for money in their pockets. Unconscionable!. The UNITED NATIONS is scandalous for how they rape the programs meant for the poor and needy of the world.
God help them all.
To look for the good where there is essentially no good is not the way of change. Programs must be followed up, checked out, monitored, audited. It is not likely to happen. How can we keep people from evil? All yield to temptation. again and again.
These poor have life. God given life. It is a test of the world how shamefully they are treated and how most look away, MOO!
Most small businesses are financed initially by home mortgages, but without a title and without a legal system to back up the transaction, a home owner cannot get credit from any sensible bank. So nothing happens, and that capital sits dead in the water, often for generations.
In other words: are they rationalizing moochers or are they willing to earn it.
Like when a certain “leader” took General Motors from it’s rightful owners and gave it to the unions? That rule of law?
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