poverty et al

Today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty? What the F@#%,stop driving the ostentatious petrol guzzlers, let us build a meritocracy rather than a "buddytocracy" (aka cronyism) of meretricious social climbers. Promote and construct a favourable environment conducive for the building of small business (entrepreneurs). Encourage "Thabo and Nandi Public" to save rather than to live off credit and stor e cards ,structure and inculcate a culture of problem solving rather than consumption in our education. Our children should not be encouraged to seek employment but create it, not to want to put up a facade of wealth but to build it. Of Utmost importance let us desist with AID, remember that aid is premised on a guilty conscience, it is artificial and has produced a schizophrenic society. Altruism is dead, its values are not intrinsic to its implementation, but rather brought upon by exogenous factors, therein lies the paradox and hence its inefficacy. Therefore, egoism is up for consideration, as it demands introspection, assertiveness, boldness, courage; in one word innovation. Nation states, for that matter people, that are going to flourish today and in the future are those that are able to innovate. We demand investment, it necessitates innovation, you want proof, scrutinise China; in the same breath beware of China. This shall be known as nation building or if you like poverty eradication. Do this, and you shall forever be known as a LEADER. In a static society, the arguement that menial employment is an inevitability gains credence,due to the meandering predictable mindset that consumes it.I'm talking 9 to 5 mindset here,the herd mentality. A society that believes that it will never develop,a society that believes that the outcome of its educational system is to create citizens worthy of menail avocations. In an enterprising society, that we need to envisage, we will create machines to take over the mandatory albeit menial,thus making them "vital services", if not such societies professionalise them to circumvent the social stigma associated with them.Hence, yeilding renumeration far exceeding what is commonly refered to as a living wage,because educated societies demand such. Bear in mind that our advancement will be determined by the total sum of the citizenry,that is to say will judge our progress by the least poor amongst us and not by the current standard of citing the odd minority in a sea of poverty.Then only than will you know that we have forged ahead and left the excuse,blame mentality behind, for it signifies and masks nothing less than an inferiority complex. An inferiority complex as defined by the dictionary is "intense feeling of inferiority, producing a personality characterized either by extreme reticence or, as a result of overcompensation, by extreme aggressiveness." Have we seen this throughout the echelons of our society all too frequently,yes, from the national leadership, to the man on the street; this is where all the "foreign" scribed policies to eradicate poverty fail,as they do not full address nor comprehend the pyschy of the beneficiary and their custodians.They have been apt at perpetuating the status quo. In a self confident society,service to the nation is admired and held in high regard;it is not seen as a gateway to opulence.Women and men, are proud of how they make the daily bread,not through rent seeking, for they know the that ample opportunity exists elsewhere if they so choose;provided they follow through with their education,I repeat education, education, education. Education does wonders for a person,now imagine what it can do for a nation. Rent seeking on the other hand,is a regressive phenomenon,which is common place in an expanding or large civil service. As it provides the dull and mediocre with an avenue to attempt to obtain income,by manipulating the social and political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than creating new wealth by pursuing asset yielding activities; thereby, providing the contemptible infrastructure,that paves the way to the anguish we know as corruption. Let us build a prosperous society where education reigns supreme,for it enables the citizenry to imagine and live up to their imaginations;as opposed to feeling imprisoned by their current circumstances.