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Stresses of Poverty

What is happening to many of the poor and very poor.

In Bombay the slums cause an aging of children beyond their years. There is a market for kidneys, eyes and other organs, which keeps the organ trade going. This is not what people are thinking when going on to alternative trips. Some things that people need are very expensive and the only way out in heavily populated countries is to sell an eye for example. Bureaucracy exists in some nations such that it is very difficult for benefits to reach the common person. Sometimes it takes the power of a separate agency to interfere in government-controlled bureaucracy to make sure that the population has a fresh water supply. These are some of stresses of living in the modern world and there are specific stresses felt by the impoverished and excluded members of society.

If getting clothing to keep warm is an issue in countries where it gets cold during the winter and finding warm clothing and heat are an issue, than it is particularly stressful for people who cannot afford to spend money for what others take for granted. In addition, think of the exposure of the down and out, to street gangs that will purposely pick on the isolated bum that has no means to protect himself against them. I noticed this once at a metro stop where youth congregate on their way to school and made it a sport of molesting a guy who already had his teeth knocked out.

Another sore point of poverty is being sold into slavery with shackles as is done in the Sudan, to pay for family debts or provide man power to an industry that stays secluded despite all the legislation that abolished slavery in 1865. It looks like that happened only on this continent and the slave trade is doing well in Africa and Asia and South America. In certain Asian countries slavery is a commonplace way of paying back debts where people sell themselves into situations that are irreversible, the individual works under slave conditions to buy back his freedom and obtain meager earnings for their families. Is this the price we are paying because we are too many on this planet?

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Comments (2)
#1 by Matt, Dec 16, 2007
No. We have become delusional and weak. Think about your herritage. At some point in time someone in your family has either fought or died for liberation from such tirany. Currently, we have troops in other countries doing just this. An example of poverty that we had to overcome was the great depression. Many of the same things happened durring this time. We are living now in a time where people believe that it is someone else's job to provide for us. If we do not all start pulling our own weight, we will soon be in another great depression. If you do not believe me, just vote Hillary Clinton into the presidential office and watch it happen. Who do you think will be paying for all of her new ideas? How do you think your quality of life will be effected when taxes jump sky high? How much money have you put aside for that? If none, you may be the homeless person that kids make fun of on their way to school one day.
#2 by ecrivan, Jan 6, 2008
You should know that world poverty and slavery is not a product of weakness and delusions it is a product of self-centered autocracies that do not share their wealths, that are only interested in lining the pockets of oil and multinational lobbyists. There is no question that America did play a major role in liberating Europe and rebuilding it, but that was over fifty years ago and we shouldn't live in the past, should we? Today an ever increasing population in the United States is not getting the education they need to be competitive on the world stage. They are being pushed through the system for lack of better words because it is easier to continue the educational system the way it is and more and more are unable to express themselves properly in their own language. Improvement has to occur there and is not an issue of \"just pulling your own weight\", that would be too simplistic to be effective. A health system incorporating Medicare has been proven successful elsewhere; America is too powerful a nation not to allow a certain quality of care like this to its citizens. People need to have a renewed confidence in the home buying industry and so real estate companies that have been speculating on home prices have got to be controlled. That will allow for an upturn in home buying.
It is important for those changes to be instituted no matter what leader you want to vote into office; there is no question that keeping the status quo will only induce a recession because of the current policy in funneling jobs outside the US among other issues.There is no use in teasing me to vote for Hillary although I would much rather have her for change. Change is going to require an effort that may mean spending money.
Once you realize that not all people who write for blogs such as this are not from the U.S you can begin to accept the fact that most its troubles that America faces to repair its internal woes hinges on how it looks on the world. It is continually spending money that is not there to spend. The US. is not the world nor can it expect the world to act on its model just because it would like to convince other powers it is interested in creating \"western\" styled democracies. It is interested in keeping an imperial presence elsewhere while it negates vital issues at home. That is not new when it comes to powers that want to keep their positive image even at the expense of not providing compensation to 911 victims, even when it comes to getting assistance out to Katrina victims years later. Bush never even knew where Afghanistan was and you would rather have Americans continue with his shotgun, debt raising policies in the name of creating democracies where tribalism has been going on for thousands of years?Get a hold of yourself before you start hitting the breadlines in the dead of winter.
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