What Do You Think Of This Writing On Third World Countries…i Found It Interesting And Eye-opening?
Posted in Luxury Handbags on 07/04/2009 06:25 am by a-lianLife in a Third World Country
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” - Nido Qubein
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Economist Robert Heilbroner describes the luxuries a typical American family would have to surrender if they lived a month the one billion hungry people in the Third World:
We begin by invading the house of our imaginary American family to strip it of its furniture.
Everything goes: beds, chairs, tables, television sets, lamps. We will leave the family with a few old blankets, a kitchen table, a wooden chair. Along with the bureaus go the clothes. Each member of the family may keep in his “wardrobe”, his oldest suit or dress, a shirt or blouse. We will permit a pair of shoes for the head of the family, but none for his wife or children.
We move to the kitchen. The appliances have already been taken out, so we turn to the cupboards; the box of matches may stay, a small bag of flour, some sugar and salt. A few moldy potatoes, already in the garbage can, must be rescued, for they will provide much of tonight’s meal. We will leave a handful of onions and a dish of dried beans. All the rest we take away: the meat, the fresh vegetables, the canned goods, the crackers, the candy.
Now we have stripped the house: the bathroom has been dismantled, the running water shut off, the electric wires taken out. Next we take away the house. The family can move to the tool shed. Communications must go next. No more newspapers, magazines, books, not that they are missed, since we must take away our family’s literacy as well. Instead, in our shantytown we will allow one radio.What Do You Think Of This Writing On Third World Countries…i Found It Interesting And Eye-opening?
Now government services must go next. No more postmen, no more firemen.
There is a school, but it is three miles away and consists of two classrooms. There are, of course, no hospitals or doctors nearby. The nearest clinic is ten miles away and is tended by a midwife. It can be reached by bicycle, provided the family has a bicycle, which is unlikely.
Finally, money. We will allow our family a cash hoard of five dollars. This will prevent our breadwinner from experiencing the tragedy of an Iranian peasant who went blind because he could not raise the $3.94 which he mistakenly thought he needed to receive admission to a hospital where he could have been cured..
Taken from “Revolution in World Missions”, by K.P. Yohannan
07/04/2009 at 6:25 am
I think as US citizens we should be thankful For what we have. As for others? Jesus said the poor you have with you always. You will always have bills to pay. There will always be someone worse off than you. As for third world counties? To address their poverty you’d have to look at their political structure. The Filthy rich and the Filthy poor. There is no middle class and for them to have it you are talking about overthrowing a government and putting your beliefs into play
07/04/2009 at 6:25 am
We as Americans need to WAKE UP! We need to quit turning our faces from the poverty in the world and we need to throw our greed out the window forever or it will be done for us by the Almighty.
07/04/2009 at 6:25 am
While in the military, I spent some time in third world countries. I think that is one of the reasons that I am so glad to be in the USA. I think that if these countries had a government system based on the word of Jesus Christ, the Word, that the hole world could live like we do in the US, we should not be giving anything up, we need to continue to set the example and say, you to could have this.