What would you do if you could decrease poverty?

Question

I'm writing an essay for MUN (Model United Nations) about solving one of the world's many issues, poverty.

So may you give me some ideas of how you would solve poverty if you had the chance?

I'd make a donation campaign and a law or something that prevents food to be wasted. Do you think that's okay or is it lame?

I'll be very grateful for any help, thanks!!

Answer 1

the first thing that I would do, is bring our jobs back from overseas.. and insist that our prisoners work for a living, pay rent to the prisons, and send the rest out to the mothers of the children that are living off of welfare. I have a huge problem when I see children living on the streets as their mother or father get 3 meals  a day, a warm place to sleep, time for exercise and play, friday movie night, thanksgiving dinner made for them, free medical care, and a free education.. while hard working people on the outside, the law abiding citizens have to pay out the nose for any of those needs..

I would agree with you that it would be considered against the law to waste food.. restaurants .. specifically buffet type of restaurants should be mandated to send their leftover foods to homeless or food shelters, and give them some benefit to do so... tax cut sounds good to me.

Everyone with children should be permitted a home, not an apartment but a home... and rent be based on income... once all children become emancipated... then the parents would be responsible for finding their own homes to live in.. our government housing program is a joke and the waiting lists years long.

Every child be provided with a free college education with dedicated professors... to increase the education of our country, and this not be just a luxury for those who are rich.

I could go on and on... i dont mind if you use my ideas, but please give credit with my name. D Steinmetz

Answer 2

Hi,

Sorry but i have to give my opinion here.

I have worked in many of the worlds poorest countries and do not agree with the one side view on poverty.

Poverty is not the problem, it is population, we have inflicted countries with our morals and beliefs. It never used to be this way, look at population growth and poverty demands....

Many countries in the world are subsistence environments and the population was controlled by the forces of nature, like all living things. When we start messing with that an imbalance is created.

The speed of this imbalance will increase dramatically with population creating hunger, pollution, decease. Nature is working on fixing the imbalance we created, just look at the weather.

Surely someone can say what the cap of human population should be (based on what a specific country can support), only then can we truly fix the problems.

I know this sounds hard but sometime the right answers are