(October 23, 2011 at 1:14 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I should have mentioned that I said I don't think it can be eliminated, as communism obviously doesn't work.
Well clearly capitalism doesn't work...or you wouldn't be posing the question of how to eliminate poverty.
The very nature of capitalism ensures poverty's existence, in that the few gain at the expense of the many, and right at the bottom of the heap is the third world.
So, to eliminate poverty, capitalism must change which it cannot, or be replaced by a system that removes the two extremes of excessive wealth and extreme poverty.
I favour the socialist alternative until such time as someone can offer something better.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
