World Poverty

On October 5, 2015 Forbes released an article that was written by John C. Goodman called “Why is there global poverty?” During the article John addressed what Barack Obama once said to the United Nations delegates. While the president was speaking to the delegates he stated that about “800 million people in the world scrape by on less than $1.25 a day and billions of people are at risk of dying from preventable diseases.”  to which John wasn't happy that Obama had said that so he shared his opinion being that the public should be angry when presidents and people who push to save world poverty without doing extensive research and getting all facts as well as what economist have recently discovered. He gives us 2 charts the first one by Kruse Kronicle, and the second one that shows the worlds worst poverty. After showing us the first chart he make a reference towards Adam Smith and a book he wrote about 240 years ago titled “ An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations” the book is centered to be the beginning of economics but Smith instead of focusing on the reason of why there is poverty he asks why is their wealth? John Brings up a question towards the president asking why there are nations in the world that are so poor that they live worse than their ancestors did to which his response was “One of the best indicators of whether a country will succeed is how it treats its women and I have to say I do not have patience for the excuse of, ‘Well, we have our own ways of doing things.” The response wasn't enough for him he believes that treating women badly isn't the reason why there is so many poverty around the world. In my opinion instead of insulting everything the president had said he could of argued back with proper facts and research not just with words he believed. Although I myself do like that he addressed what Adam Smith had one said “ don't question why there is poverty but why there is wealth” is a great quote and makes perfect sense to be in this article he should of gotten more facts and contributed them into this article. I see where John is coming from how presidents and important people from the government should have the right to have an opinion on poverty considering the fact that most of them have never been poor or have to work for 7.25 an hour and still have taxes money token out of your paycheck. Because that is most of americans working around 40 hours or more for 7.25 an hour and it sucks. In my opinion there shouldn't really be any people superior in money we should all help out each other the rich have enough money to help out every homeless person in America and help countries that living on scratch that their government cant and wont help in. we shouldn’t be greedy when it comes to money because it comes and goes but kindness and the feeling of helping someone in need is the best thing there is. To me John could of separated his feeling from this article more and stop “insulting” everything Obama had to say, put in more facts about world poverty and it would of been a great article.