Alfred Holzheu – online and verbose – The Main Pontifications page – The Challenge

Alfred Holzheu – online and verbose – The Main Pontifications page – The Challenge

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Friday, July 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM

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Jul 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM

The Challenge

I imagine most people have heard about Warren Buffet and Bill Gates challenge to the very wealthy to donate half of their wealth to Charity.  Sound great, but in the end not particularly effective.  What if the challenge was to the governments of the world to dedicate half of their military budgets to development instead of destruction?  I find it interesting that there is always money to go to war, build bombs, tanks, bombers, bullets, machine guns.  What if the same effort was made to produce tractors, water pumps, rail road track and locomotives, bull dozers, cement truck and cement plants……..etc.  The same people are at work, the same businessmen are getting rich (and hopefully they will donate half of that to charity as well) the same governments are busy doing whatever bureaucrats do, everybody wins.  Imagine if we loaded a super cargo ship loaded with John Deere Tractors, Caterpillar dozers, cranes and earthmovers, Gould water pumps, GE wind and gas turbines, Ford and GMC trucks, etc.  and delivered this cache with an “army” of engineers and teachers to Iraq, or Somalia or Haiti.  You choose, we would spend half of the military cost and would be welcomed with open arms.  Build up their infrastructure, make them self-sufficient, and teach them to fish, then leave.  When I thought about the possibilities, it just seems too simple, but I challenge anyone to find a flaw. 

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