Perhaps the most important issue for humanity, we all but never see any construvtive discussion about it here.
So, let's see who has any good plan.
You can use whatever you want - tough anti-illegal immigrant enforcement, war, new political setups, you pick - but show it will be good for the people of the world.
Sadly, the real point of this thread is to show how bankrupt our political culture is on this issue - how we can bicker over every little bit of garbage, hundreds of posts about two acticvists who entrap a couple of people into helping with with advice on prostitution, somecrazy thing a pundits said, but all we get is 'it's not our problem' on global poverty.
Anyone who just says 'it's not our problem' and isn't concerned with looking for what can be done is IMO amoral at best, and not much of a member of the human race.
Has our culture degraded to that point, that there is no concer as the richest country in the world for the rest of the human race?
I know private charity provided a helpful couple drops in the bucket; if you want to push that, show how it can be increased by orders of magnitude.
Leading anti-poverty people talk about 1% from the advanced nations as making a huge difference. I don't see a problem with that approach.
So, let's see, who has a plan? Only plans are invited, not excuses why to ignore it, not arguments about what our current small foreign aid efforts do.
The last new big thing we did was the Peace Corps - helpful, if modest.
Some say we're on the verge of people becoming more expensive than what they contribute and that this will lead to policies letting many lose their lives to disease, etc.
Other - better IMO - tools include land reform, birth control, and encouragement of the development of local industries.
So, let's see who has any good plan.
You can use whatever you want - tough anti-illegal immigrant enforcement, war, new political setups, you pick - but show it will be good for the people of the world.
Sadly, the real point of this thread is to show how bankrupt our political culture is on this issue - how we can bicker over every little bit of garbage, hundreds of posts about two acticvists who entrap a couple of people into helping with with advice on prostitution, somecrazy thing a pundits said, but all we get is 'it's not our problem' on global poverty.
Anyone who just says 'it's not our problem' and isn't concerned with looking for what can be done is IMO amoral at best, and not much of a member of the human race.
Has our culture degraded to that point, that there is no concer as the richest country in the world for the rest of the human race?
I know private charity provided a helpful couple drops in the bucket; if you want to push that, show how it can be increased by orders of magnitude.
Leading anti-poverty people talk about 1% from the advanced nations as making a huge difference. I don't see a problem with that approach.
So, let's see, who has a plan? Only plans are invited, not excuses why to ignore it, not arguments about what our current small foreign aid efforts do.
The last new big thing we did was the Peace Corps - helpful, if modest.
Some say we're on the verge of people becoming more expensive than what they contribute and that this will lead to policies letting many lose their lives to disease, etc.
Other - better IMO - tools include land reform, birth control, and encouragement of the development of local industries.