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2015-09-26 International-UN-NGOs

World leaders pledge to end poverty in 15 years

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "The key missing ingredient is political will," said Jamie Drummond, executive director for global strategy

And money. Lots and lots and lots of money. We will need a global U.N. Tax! It's for the Children!

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-09-26 01:33|| 2015-09-26 01:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Get rid of all the socialist/communist countries in favor of capitalism and you'll end poverty. There is no other way. No other system creates wealth, they all suck it up.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-09-26 02:38|| 2015-09-26 02:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Define poverty.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-26 04:00|| 2015-09-26 04:00|| Front Page Top

#4 1. You'll never end poverty. Personality archetypes are what they are. Some people won't work unless it's the only way to prevent starvation. Some people won't work EVEN IF it's the only way to prevent starvation. Simply giving money to these types will insure that they do not work. They will therefore be unproductive and not generate the money needed to have a society that will give money in the first place.

2. Define poverty as a lowest percentage and poverty will always exist unless everybody is made the same by "hatchet, axe, and saw", to quote Peart. Poverty must be defined by a specific number, not by how people are doing relative to the general population. This leads to having a dishonest notion of what "poor" means. It also pushes people to engage in notions of relative deprivation, instead of being honest about their level of material comfort.

3, Every society which has ever attempted to end poverty by massive government intervention has been a total failure. Every society which tries to end poverty by massive government intervention ends up being a brutal crusher of inalienable rights and liberties. There have been no exceptions to this, because that impulse is flawed, evil, and cannot be made to work, no matter who is in charge.

Posted by no mo uro 2015-09-26 05:10|| 2015-09-26 05:10|| Front Page Top

#5 "Daar sal altyd arm mense in die land wees."

[There shall always be poor people in the land.]

Written a while back as I recall, and yet to be disproved. The facts will never stop lads like Ki-moon however. Poverty is an enterprise and a very profitable one at that.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-26 07:18|| 2015-09-26 07:18|| Front Page Top

#6 World leaders pledge to end poverty in 15 years

And they always will.

Posted by charger 2015-09-26 12:52|| 2015-09-26 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 They have also pledged to power our electric flying cars on unicorn farts and to train monkey butlers to serve us margaritas while we enjoy a minimum wage of $10,000/hr.

Then they started ranting about alien bases on the moon and CIA plots to raise the aliens' property taxes. And then it got weird.

Posted by Iblis 2015-09-26 15:11|| 2015-09-26 15:11|| Front Page Top

#8 ReDefine poverty.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-09-26 15:47|| 2015-09-26 15:47|| Front Page Top

#9 17 goals and 169 targets

A bureaucrat's delight! We'll be eating shrimp cocktail for decades. Call a meeting, Smedley!

Interested in actual solutions? A rare gem amongst TED Talks (they tend towards hipster douchery) is this one by Niall Ferguson on the Six Killer Apps of Prosperity which explains why the West is doing so well. (no doubt you have noticed flocks of refugee/migrants streaming in a particular direction)

"He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture — call them the 6 killer apps — that promote wealth, stability and innovation."

The unmentioned problem is that your Operating System (AKA your culture/society) may need an upgrade to be capable of running these apps.

Posted by SteveS 2015-09-26 16:18|| 2015-09-26 16:18|| Front Page Top

#10 About ten years ago I went to Bangalore, India. I saw people living in corrugated metal shacks, that were next to a stream that was an open sewer. To those people, "poor" people in America are incredibly wealthy. Yet, liberals decry poverty in America.

As no mor uro pointed out, unless everyone has exactly the same wealth, there will always be poverty.

Posted by Rambler in Viginia 2015-09-26 19:02|| 2015-09-26 19:02|| Front Page Top

#11 "The poor you will always have with you"

Matthew 26:11

Yup.

Posted by Barbara 2015-09-26 20:45|| 2015-09-26 20:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Ted Talks...

I watched part of a Ted Talk the other day where some professor was suggestion we can end poverty by simply printing more money and giving it to the poor..

And he was taken seriously...

I think he was some professor in economics...

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-09-26 22:03|| 2015-09-26 22:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Here is a solution to poverty: compute the median wealth of the world. For everyone who has more than that, seize the amount of excess and give it to everyone who has less than the median. That way, everyone will have exactly the same. This will end poverty, since everyone will be identically rich (or poor, depending on your point of view).

I didn't say that it was a GOOD plan.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-09-26 23:14|| 2015-09-26 23:14|| Front Page Top

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