(1888PressRelease)
May 02, 2007 - Those who have found a reason to examine the causes of poverty in all nations, and presuming to have identified them, have had in almost every instance preached that the rich (or the wealthy) are the cause. By the rich, they have meant that individuals or nations in possession of far much wealth are sources of poverty or causes of the condition of being without much among other individuals or nations. They have insisted on this point by observing that, while they have attempted through the vote to make all men equal and equally wealthy, nonetheless, only a few men, and only a few nations, seem to have become prosperous. Their conclusion has always been that those individuals and nations that have risen above poverty have done so at the expense of every creature that is laboring under the groaning pains of poverty.
And their cure has been to attempt to redistribute the existing wealth that they have not created. But their schemes of attempting to redistribute wealth, in essence, is the attempt to transfer wealth from those who own it (and most of them own their wealth justly) to those who have no just claim to the portion of wealth that they claim they are entitled to receive.
This attempt to transfer wealth from the just owners to the government welfare junkies and dependants in the form of political or government salaries and pensions; social security payments; foreign aid; and donations to giant international institutions such as the United Nations(an institution that ought not to have been created in the first place for it is much more of an encumbrance upon the propitious human relations than an agent of progress) is a process or a systematic practice to impoverish one section of the population, or one nation, and artificially enrich the idle. The striking observation in here is that those advocating the transfer of wealth in this manner hardly produce anything; hence their ridiculous position.
Sir Munyemesha chides the common notions on the causes of poverty while at the same time, with vehement conviction and overpowering rational analysis, lays out what he thinks is the principal cause of universal poverty.
