Do You KNOW What Poverty Is?

bundangbear continues his quest for understanding and meaning in this world regarding the terrible divide between 3rd world and 1st world with real life examples and pictures.
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[hapilton]

i know this is going to sound horrible and i'm going to get a bunch of nasty comments about this but wouldn't it be more humane to find a way to sterilize people living in poverty? isn't it best to prevent future generations of impoverished children from coming instead of trying to fix the growing problem with money? Education doesn't seem to work and when you cant feed yourself having kids doesn't help your situation.

[bundangbear]

@hapilton You're right. It does sound horrible. But look at the impossibility of the logistics of getting all those people to agree to it, too. Especially in Catholic Philippines. Not going to happen.

[thedarkknight17]

An interesting challenge to the 1st world is presenting itself since technology is making the world smaller. A computer programmer in The Philippines can get paid the same as California state minimum wage and live very well. Also look at all the call center jobs that are being sourced to The Philippines. It's close to half a million jobs that have been transferred from the US to The Philippines alone.

[bundangbear]

@thedarkknight17 Call centers don't make that much! Do they now in PI? I worked for an NGO and made 1,000 USD a month.

[Ubookz]

I live here-for now, and there are foreigners who live here permanently.The richer locals walk over the poor, drive around in big suv's with blacked out windows. Corruption is a way of life, work positions are inherited-those in high places care about themselves. This is not a good country to live in. I am coming home to Canada soon.

[bundangbear]

@Ubookz I lived in Cebu for TWO YEARS! It is important for a Filipino to say this, as a foreigner, I feel it is not my place to condemn other countries, and I hope you don't see this as a condemnation of your wonderful country, but rather a condemnation of the 1st world and the rich in all 3rd world nations that walk over the bodies of the impoverished. Salamat po!

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[VlogOfTheDayWithGelE]

Being from this country, I hate seeing stuff like this also. Some organizations are doing action about this situation such as building houses for these people, feeding programs, child sponsorship and scholarships. One day, we will get over this poverty thing. ;)

[hapilton]

@bundangbear exactly haha

[hapilton]

@MrBric12 Thats not racist at all, i hate you stupid sons of bitches who call racist on everything. I never made any comment about black people. you just think your really cool because you can call someone racist. and ya sterilizeing would theoretically fix the problem. but at the same time i soppose you think the only thing better then a billion starving, deseased children is a billion more...

[strezz05]

I feel your pain. I've been living here in manila for a very long time now and every Christmas i try and Manage to feed 20 kids off the streets. I wish i could feed more of them and not just on Christmas.

I feel people have lost the real meaning of humanity.

[MrBric12]

@hapilton You sick SOB. If they were white you wouldn't even bring that up. "There poor so let's sterilize them". WTF! You racist idiot. Maybe they're poor because of oppression. Look at black people in the U.S. They make a big deal out of a half black man being President.

[ivan00000006]

World poverty is engineered!That is the main objective of  trade throughout history, hence the 3rd world nation economies and our own. Via control and ownership manipulation of natural resources concentrated amongst the few.Destabilization of internal social politics and the premeditated deactivation of development in real production(of all types).Plus the control of their national economies based on fiat currency (something that is catching up to us).Capitalism for the consumer (poor excluded.

[producersunnyshadows]

if only all the first world could see places like this. i came to cebu a year ago and i was heart broken with what i saw and experienced . i now live here and love the place and the people, i do get treated like im a rich foreigner but i am far from it , kids constantly ask for food or money and it is really hard to say you cant help them. im married to a local girl and we help feed the kids in our own area when we can but its only a small amount. god bless all the forgotten people of the world.