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Would $30Billion end world hunger?

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I often here the statistic that just $1billion is enough to treat all curable diseases in the world.

Bill Gates has donated $30Billion to charity. Why does poverty still exist?

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  1. As Jesus put it, "The poor you have with you always" (Matthew 26:11).

    There are a couple of logical problems, or lack thereof, involved. Consider that Haiti has food rotting on the docks, shipped in by nations and humanitarian groups, but tied up in turf wars of petty bureaucrats. Of course the Zimbabwe thing is a homemade absurdity of the highest order.

    Consider this article in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

    The Republican President wants to change some things, but the Democrats (and more than a few other Republicans) can't let him get away with doing something sensible. The part about Japan's rice buying contracts and treaties was fascinating, but don't skip the third from last paragraph, where countries are halting food exports, even poor countries that could use the extra money.

    Then check out this news link: http://www.poncacitynews.com/templates/e...

    It seems that one Oklahoma town has so much food and money in their school budget that they are sponsoring a summer school cooking class that ends with a food fight -- talk about a teaching tool!

    Monsanto and its peers produced genetically modified food crops, but almost got closed down with all of the "frankenfood" absurdly bad press a while back. Since they had invested so much in it, they concentrated in industrial uses (plastics, ethanol, animal feeds -- in those very few places where permitted). Excellent crop yields, but inedible (in order to distinguish it from "normal" they made it taste bad to humans). Meanwhile some are complaining that they are still putting that stuff out at all, as others are carping that they haven't done anything about food crops. Complainers sort of have them with a foot on the gas and another on the brake.

    No matter what anyone did, someone would complain that it was wrong, or not enough, or done for the wrong reasons, etc. ad infinitum.

    That is the hunger issue, as for the "curable diseases", providing medicine is one thing, changing the way people live so as to prevent the problem from coming back is entirely too difficult. Where I live, we've been having floods, floods that have happened before, but people still rebuild in flood plains and still drive across low bridges or dips in the road where there is water running across it, sweeping them out to drown. We have such an abundance of selfishness and stupidity that we could never cure it all.


  2. is Bill Gates going to monitor that money and make sure it goes into the right hands?? we can't throw money at the problem and expect it to go away.  we need to start from the top w/the corrupted politicians around the world who exploit their own citizens for their selfish gains.

  3. why dosnt bill gates donate is fortune to US government therefore making us win

  4. Well lets see 29.5 billion for overhead . The rest for food that will spoil before it gets to the people .

  5. Hi Deco:

    Good  question:

    30 billion dollars very well may end world hunger but I fear if it succeeded, it would only be a temporary relief.

    In many parts of the world, hunger is not only caused by weather conditions, but also by  people.  Governments like in Africa, Burma as well as many parts of the world are more preoccupied with power or self indulgence.

    Greed, corruption and the need to keep the masses poor and uneducated is a major piece of the hunger dilemma.

    Also many people throughout the world have become dependent on others to supply aid.

    A famous man once said  " give them a fish and feed them for a day, teach them to fish and feed them for life".

    Food for thought.

  6. It would not even come close.  The problem is in incompetent and corrupt governments, such as Mugabe, and given these, no finite sum, however large, would suffice.

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