Do you think it is possible to remove poverty, not just from our own back yards but globally?

Question

Poverty in America = Population 33,000,000. (12%) It's the second largest state in America.

Poverty in Australia its officailly 110 000, unfortunatly Australia doesn' have any accurate measures so it is possible it is more like 10% as well.

Every 43 seconds in the United States a child is born into poverty
Every 53 minutes in the United States a child dies from causes related to poverty
In 2002, the official poverty threshold, as defined by the US federal government, for a family of four was $18,250. Yet, most researchers agree that a basic family budget for a two-parent, two-child family ranges from $27,005 a year to $52,114, depending on the community.

Poverty is bigger than Texas, Florida or New York . It holds more people than Connecticut, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey and Nevada combined. It is home to one out of every eleven families and is home to one out of every six children.

Globally about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families.

Answer 1

Yes I do believe it is possible and feasible to end poverty not only in the United States but abroad as well. However we live in a society that bases success on achievement materially speaking. It would have to be on an enforced basis however and that cuts into what people feel is an obstruction to their civil liberties..which, as we know in the United States is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Most people intepret this in the context of self. So, you have political figures, who use guilt and other contexts, to attempt conformity to their cause. Some of the public programs in fact that are supposed to support those in poverty here in the United States in fact have very little of the money going towards the actual cause of eradicating poverty. You would need a Socialist type of structure to implement programs for food, health care, etc. to balance a nation and that historically speaking has been a failed institution as well. Individuals, specifically politicians who would attempt to legislate such reforms are still subject to the expectations of others. In another words it could never occur in a "pure"manner. Groups, people would always be excluded from a just implementation of such a broad sweep to "remove poverty." You would need every human being to be committed to love, compassion, and equality. Human Beings IMO on this planet have varying degrees of these virtues, and some human beings have none of these virtues. They are simply incapable of exhibiting caring outside of the context of what is important to themselves. And some of these people are very powerful and have a lot of control over how money might be dispensed to end poverty in the world.

Look if we were living an an enlightened society where we were completely filled with unconditional love, and caring for our fellow man, seeing everyone as an extension of ourselves and thus having a relationship with everyone the eradication of povery in every corner of the globe would be achieved IMO.

Answer 2

I think that eventually we will be able to reduce poverty to far lower numbers globally- but not for a few hundred years.

Eventually, we will be able to genetically engineer microbes that can change dry parched barren land and even desert sand into fertile soil.

We will also create fruit and grain plants that have higher yield, are more nutritious, and grow faster and replenish more frequently.

We will have a true global broadband internet that is freely accessible to everyone. This will allow all children (and all adults) to have access to educational materials wherever they are.

We will have new, cheap and efficient forms of energy that can be generated anywhere and widely distributed.

We will have technology to mass-produce manufactured housing on demand.

Will there be absolutely no poverty? No. There will still be people who for one reason or another cannot be helped or don't want to be helped.

But most people will have access to all of the food, clothing, shelter and information they need.

Answer 3

Poverty is largely a myth, maintained and promoted by liberals. The primary epidemic in America is obesity, not poverty, and where poverty does exist, it's because of people who have poverty of the mind that leads to poverty of the pocket book. This cannot be cured by liberal remedies, nor can mentally ill liberals cure mentally ill and lazy people that live in poverty.

Again, we must utilize our efforts in fighting the obesity epidemic as well as finding a cure for the liberal mental disorder effecting millions.

As far as poverty in other lands, they need to get a clue figure out how to invent the wheel, and stop worshipping the mongoose. Then, they might emerge from poverty.

Answer 4

As long as "do-gooders" think that throwing money at poverty will cure it, we will always have it. You will always have your professional (educated) that has plenty, and the guy that picks up cans along the roads (uneducated) that has nothing. The educated will see that their children are also educated and they too will have few wants. The children of the guy that picks up cans only look forward to government assistance.

Answer 5

I'm sorry poverty will always exist no matter what country you are in.. and the problem is getting worse. especially in the US

Answer 6

No, not until we get over greed, which is at the root of human poverty.

Answer 7

No. The poor will always be among us.

Answer 8

we are trying very hard.

Answer 9

sadly, i dont think it's possible.