Anyway, I was thinking about this subject of movie stars and their ilk (MakePovertyHistory.org/One.org) and the noble cause of making poverty history. I sure am not against it, hurray you deserve a cookie if you can do it, but I think it is somewhat "shortsighted".
I have a million arguments, thoughts, possible materials for a doctoral dissertation lol, but Mr. Jimbob of the Apokalypse summed it all up for me, here is an excerpt:
How is it we cannot eliminate Poverty? We hurl gold at it, and it is still ragged. We throw our table scraps at it, yet it still hungers. We try to kill it, and yet it lives on. There are few topics that devour more time in earnest discussion, yet it is still a mystery. Why poverty?
Read the whole thing at - http://shakingoffsleep.blogspot.com/2005/12/invincible-poor.html
