by Dwayne Theriault

Created on: January 04, 2009

Poverty in third world countries is something I have not seen much of, 2 weeks in Cuba , 2 weeks in Dominican Republic is about all I have personally experienced in a third world setting . I did have some experiences of poverty there including four young boys who had lost their father coming and asking me to be their father . A very poor village offering me a young girl as a gift when I went there visiting , A girl in a bar Almost passing out over a dollar and 50 cent tip . I did get my eyes opened a little as to what hard times was really like .

Yesterday I read a front page article in a Canadian news paper it was about the incomes of the average executive in Canadian companies . It claimed that the average excecutive made as much as the average worker makes in Canada per year in the first 4 minutes of the work year . The average income of Canadian workers was like 43,000 dollars a year and it took 4 minutes for the average company excecutive to make that much as the average for them was like 11,000,000 per year . This article claimed that last year while we had major lay offs ,people loseing savings in stock markets , companies going under , major bailouts from goverment . The average executive of Canadian companies it claimed took a 20% pay raise last year .

I just can't stop thinking now what kind of people do I share this earth with ? How greedy are some? I'm almost completely fed up with western ways now . Maybe we should of let the communist take it all over . Well no Cuba was communist and the average worker there was paid 10 dollars a month . So maybe we was right in fighting the communist off.

What is the answer ? Should greed be ccontrolled ? In my opinion with the way things are on planet earth , with all the poverty in third world countries maybe we should have a global salary cap . Would not 1,000,000 American dollars a year be enough for any man? How about we make a new law on earth that any one making over 1,000,000 American a year has to give all the rest to the poor .

In truth we would be doing them greedy bastards a favour . The best time I ever had was in Cuba walking around giving out gifts to very poor . I mostly gave out toilet paper and tooth paste , Just went door to door and gave to the poor . I must say it was enjoyable , never had much to give . I can only Imagine if one of them Canadian exsectives went down and gave away 10,000,000 of his yearly salery how much better he would feel in his life .

Ya lets do something here on planet earth to help poverty in third world countries a global salery cap would be a start .

While in Cuba a very poor woman went about giving me all the coconuts on her 2 trees in her yard ,I refused them , but the poor woman had picked them . I offered her money in return . She refused money ! I asked what then? she said i only want one thing a book explaining Gods love . I honestly broke out in tears ! All she wanted was a Bible . Just could not get one .

Well I did call my church and they sent one . Did Castro allow her to get it ? There is still some good people on this earth ,lets not give up on it yet . I really would like to see what the bible wanting lady in Cuba would of done if her Salery was 11,000,000 dollars per year instead of 100 dollars per year . I bet she would of changed the lives of some in poverty in a third world country .

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