Waging war on poverty can never work. It will always be counterproductive. All that it can do is destroy wealth and increase the experience of poverty. Why? Because you cannot destroy or diminish the negative. You cannot destroy what isn’t. Poverty is the isn’t of something or other. It is not having. Not having enough, not having as much as, not having something or other. It is the negation or negative of wealth and value.
Attacking what doesn’t exist can only destroy value that does exist. Think man who imagines little green men and pursues them with a gun. His bullets will not be stopped by the nonexistent creatures but by real things and perhaps people. Going after the nonexistent, the negative, negation is at best wasteful and often destructive. It is dangerous. And we generally recognize people who are out to destroy the nonexistent that their mind perceives to be a danger.
It is widely recognized that focusing on the negative will result in failure, stagnation and decline. But somehow it is the default operating system on the macro or political level. Our only hope to avoid more struggle, hardship and eventual collapse is to reject this loser’s outlook and embrace the winner’s positive and appreciative consciousness of what is. If we manage to do that we can expect limitless prosperity, progress and growth.
Spiritual poverty has to be fought before material poverty will (as appropriate) yield.
This poverty has afflicted not just liberals but much of “conservative” America, which has scornfully treated the Lord.
Ever follow a Facebook discussion that is headed “I Did Not Vote For Obama?” You’d expect to see strong calls for godliness there... WRONG. Supposed conservatives are voicing things, right in front of millions of fellow Americans and who knows what else, that are only one step removed from the cave man. Folks, both the starboard and the port side of the ship to hell will arrive there.
The salt was allowed to get unsalty and what is going to replace its saltiness? Will the world do it? The devil won’t even if he wanted to which he most heartily does not. We cannot generate it with our sinful selves.