| Many
view
poverty as a choice. They feel that anyone can pull him or her self
out of poverty if he or she would just make the effort. Unfortunately,
these are NOT the voices of reason and equality, but they ARE the
voices that control our daily lives. Effort? Let's take San Diego, California near the US/Mexico border. In this area, countless Latino Americans make a considerable effort, risking their very lives and freedom in their effort, attempting to cross the boarder illegally into America. This effort is for what? They obviously have no hope of applying for US food stamps, section 8 housing, Medicaid, or any other US social welfare program, so why make the effort? Oh, yes, these "effortless" and "lazy" people are sacrificing their lives and freedom daily to come to the US to do what? WORK! They'll take any job they can get, any pay, any conditions, just to earn enough money to take care of their meager lifestyles and send the rest home to their poverty-stricken families. Effort? Don't talk to these people, and millions of others like them living in poverty, about effort. Talk to the rich who earn an income off of stock and bonds, corporate greed and corruption. What effort do these make in acquiring their riches? What actual physical activity do they take to enrich their lives and themselves, except to turn over their financial portfolios to a financial adviser who is required to make them money so they don't have to themselves? Effort? What kind of effort are government bureaucrats making in maintaining their jobs? They sit at their desks, barking a few orders to their underlings - who can't find enough American workers willing to take minimum wage to do the bidding of the bureaucracy. This results in hypocritical bureaucrats forced to use illegal immigrants to do the work that the bureaucrats then get credit for, by sitting at their desks all day. Effort? We need to make the effort to transform this world into one of peace and equality by allowing all those who want to work, the ability and the compensation to do so. We must ensure them the basic necessities of the life we as a world community allow them to have among us. We need the WUF to create and inspire this EFFORT so that the efforts of the poor don't go unnoticed. So the many lives that are lost by crossing a scorching desert in an attempt to enter the USA to WORK, do not get buried under the paperwork of some government bureaucrat whose daily effort is lifting a Starbucks coffee high enough to create enough energy so sitting at a desk all day doesn't make him sleepy. |
