WORLD POVERTY has always existed, even, I suspect, back in caveman times.

And as the world population increases exponentially the problem increases. Technology then actually through longer lives and permitting larger families increases the problem of poverty, and in my mind, OWES the poverty-stricken an attempt at least to solve or ameliorate the problem.

FIRST, the world as a whole would need an elemosynary department, an international set-up created SOLELY for combating poverty as represented first by hunger, second by health and third by re-education.

Such an intenational set-up and not the kind of ineffectual UN business we have now, would be mandatorially given funds on a relative basis of wealth-population for each contributing country.

The first element would then be preparing a healthy and simple save them from death type of package that could be easily distributed anywhere in the world. SECOND, would be the system for that distribution, and it should AVOID government controled distribution in the target countries, rather having its own representatives in each country to monitor the arrival and dissemination of the food.

That in place, HEALTH problems among the same could be attacked in a similar way, with the same offices reporting on the specific health needs and solving them.

In the present world population, and with the present world population's present need for food and medicine, the cost annually would be about 100 billion dollars, the cost of a war in
Iraq for a period of six months.
If that cost were spread over the present countries with viable incomes, the disappaearance of dollars from each would be negligible.

The biggest problem with such a plan is the avoidance of bureaucratism...I have no solution to that other than the possibility of picking PEOPLE of great worth from present plans that work (like SAVE THE CHILDREN and FEED THE CHILDREN) but avoiding the slowness and stickiness of the religious ties of such organizations.

A third internal bureau would counsel, instruct, and prepare poverty areas for self-survival. That would be crucial.

This entire plan would HAVE to be, MUST be, mondial and well funded and above politics.

In simplicity, the problems are EAT, SURVIVE, LEARN. The goal is the same: feed them, make them healthy, put them on self-sustainment.

DO IT outside the bureaucracies!

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