Show government CAN NOT SOLVE PROBLEM OF POVERTY uy by georgo peck government alov eminent for sonie time has baa been trying unsuccessfully to solve tue the problem of poverty it really Is ia a pat paradox adox that here in the worlds richest country we should have hae a poverty problem to solve nevertheless ote one exists we would bo be foolish to imitate uie the ostrich by burying our beads licaus in the fiand and pretending to ignore lt it flere lu in this land of equal opportunity oue one third of our people is ill fed and poorly clothed if 11 mem ory 07 serves us ua correctly correct li one of our oar outstanding executives has ed this as uie the submerged third ALL AH decent citizens bave sincere sympathy for these less fortunate among us but we must not be lu i our efforts to correct a bad situation for fear that ahat in trying to effect affect a ure cure we only succeed in hi making the patient worse perhaps kill him various schemes have been pro posed onig i e even aa 1 bost of these have haie as their bases uie the idea ot of taking away anay irom from uie the haves laves I and giving to the have bots nots dr ruth alexander nation aly ally known lecturer and econ economea very lery aptly commented comment eti on this ua unwise procedure when she chiald basically there are arc tragic inequalities in ability just as people are naturally endowed with differentials ferenti als in eyesight we remedy visual defects as much as we can but ve dont take eyesight from one cvito sees well mid give it to one who sees area not so well bud fucili a procedure would produce a nation of blind people government etui call holve the problem of poverty at a given time tot for a given time and by methods which have never failed to destroy ill uie e whole of society la in the ile long laii these methods consist ot the forcible transfer of capital from one me group the great middle class to another group the poor such redistribution Is based solely on the needs of the poor and utterly disregards their contribution to the whole history shows that the ultimate dimate e result of the up alte of the lew few Is to drag down the many chis method does not recognize the basic cause of poverty poi erty it treats the symptom rather than getting at uie the cause karl marx maix poverty as aa the outstanding symptom of the die machine age he overlooked the fact that poverty lius has existed continuously throughout human history long before the today it la is most acute in countries where machine production marsely exists poverty Io erty la is sot not caused by widespread lack ot of opportunity but rather by widespread lak lack of ambition reason compels us to admit that poverty la is largely the result of specific weaknesses in human nature it la is the effect of those these tragic inequalities for will h nature la is to blame it la Is caused by lack oi of a driving will to succeed by bv tack lack of persistence and by un to make present sacrifices tor for the sake of the future therefore There foie those better equipped by to nature should assume a measure of responsibility for those suffering aront voluntary or indol enrol untaro poverty charity however put on a permanent basis destroys dearroyo dea troyo self reliance kills initiative and undermines individual responsibility the imie poor could not survive it left alone they either cannot or will not make their own survival dependent ou ell their own efforts they are moices to depend on the relatively strong destruction of these relatively strong la in the long run penalizes the whole leadership la Is a basic essential for the welfare of all aill it if we vie as a nation are submerged by excessive taxation or idle dle oft off at the top by a disproportionate birthrate birth rate all will be reduced to penury it la Is tragic but true that we cannot help the weak iby by destroying the strong that government cannot effect a permanent solution of the ile problem of poverty by redistributing buting the wealth |