“Poverty lines” are relative. When the total benefit package in the U.S. is $60,000, and the average earnings of a rural Chinese are $1600, one has to acknowledge that there is a difference, even though China actually abandoned Communism decades ago.
I wonder the same thing about individuals wanting to turn over planning to the US government. For the life of me, I do not understand people’s insipid propensity of submitting to presumed authority.
The bottom line is the relative cost of living in each nation, not just the earnings. Do you see people sleeping on the streets in China or in Cuba?
Again, the relative cost of living must be taken into account. Are you inferring that the CIA is gathering information that is superfluous?
I was using the UN as an example for alleviating poverty in third-world nations, not Western nations.
That is not what I said at all. Please don’t put words into my mouth.So there we have it; just maintain the status quo and go om pretending that extreme poverty does not exist!
What about the extreme poverty that exists in our own backyard, here in America?
Again we reply, The media DOES make society aware.
Where are these resources readily available? Search Google using the terms ‘extreme poverty’ and you will get in return articles with pictures glorifying it – wow, that is not so bad after all! It’s extremely hard, for example, to see pictures of any of the 3.5 million children who die of starvation every year!
Which is exactly what we see with the social welfare states, such as our current government if we continue down the path that our politicitians seem to want for us.
Robert, what about the millions of children that are not even given a chance to live? God did not intend for us to be able to eradicate poverty. He said the opposite when he said the poor will always be with us. We don’t see saints in the Church going after specific groups for the blame, but we see them work on themselves and their relationship with God. My point is not that I disagree with you, but that we do not have the power to change people (not that we should not stand as witnesses to what is happening), but it is God’s job to change peoples’ hearts and all we can do is give witness and example to the charitable works that we are called to. It starts with each of us and by God’s grace it will spread to those around us. The media has the same responsibility being made up of humans as you and I do to speak out against these things, but we cannot convict them of a crime for not doing so, that ultimately is a judgement left to the Supreme Judge.
There will be those living poverty among us always, but that does not mean that we cannot eradicate extreme poverty.
Well I hope I am not being to bold, but if natural poverty is on par with war crimes like purposely executing millions of people in gas chambers and other devices…then the media would be commiting a crime by not reporting it…Furthermoe, I agree there is not enough attention to it, but there is media coverage of poverty…I don’t think we can throw an absolute statement saying the media is not covering it. There are also other important topics that must be covered as well. To what extent is the media to cover it? What about other moral issues like abortion, contraception, church desecration, murder, theft, violence, and good things? Do they not also have a moral obligation to report these? What about our Constitution? Have you taken that into account?
Tell me that starvation of those in extreme poverty is not on par with the starvation of the Jews in Nazi Germany (see attached photo)?
The boy in that picture is a victim, not of poverty, but of political warfare.
“Crime against humanity” is just a phrase. No one has to use the same phrase you do to have the same awareness of poverty.
The mass extermination of children has more to do with that than communism. It is irrelevant. Communism is a moral evil. One cannot resort to one evil to prevent another evil.
Is the phase “crime against humanity” in reference to the Holocaust trivial too? But maybe I’m misunderstanding you.
I agree. People are a resource and not a problem. Heavy immigration made us a strong nation. For the life of me, I cannot fathom why we no longer remember that.
So he’s somehow not living in poverty?
Poverty is being inflicted on him. A little while ago, I figured out what the problem with this thread is: you’re focusing on the symptom and not the disease. You call poverty a crime, but it’s the result of crime.So he’s somehow not living in poverty?
True warfare can inflict starvation on innocent people in some societies, but the primary problem is unfair economic systems and apathy, such as in the US and and India.