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    Global haves and global have-nots

    Global haves and global have-nots

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    by Hamid Golpira

    On Line: 07 November 2011 16:47
    In Print: Tuesday 08 November 2011

    The phenomenon of globalization has brought into sharp focus the fact that this world is divided into global haves and global have-nots.

    And almost all of the global have-nots live in the Global South.

    There are 7 billion people living on Earth, and more than half of them have to make ends meet on less than two U.S. dollars per day.

    They are the global have-nots.

    And all the people earning more than two dollars a day are the global haves.

    So the world is divided into global have-nots earning less than two dollars a day and global haves earning more than two dollars a day.

    However, a number of social commentators have said that some people who earn more than two dollars a day but who suffer from extreme racism and social exclusion are also global have-nots.

    This argument is valid to a certain extent, but for the most part the two-dollar earning mark is the boundary between the global haves and the global have-nots.

    When the great chasm between the global haves and the global have-nots is taken into consideration, it becomes clear that there is no true class struggle in the United States and the rest of the Western world.

    Although about 15 percent of the residents of the U.S. are living in poverty, according to the standard of living of the United States, most of those people are not truly global have-nots since they have access to services and are usually not hungry.

    The only people in the United States who could in some way be regarded as global have-nots are the homeless, the long-term unemployed, the poorest of the American Indians living on reservations, the poorest of the Blacks living in ghettos, the poorest of the Hispanics living in barrios, and undocumented immigrants.

    But even they have a higher standard of living than most of the people in the Global South.

    Europe has almost no global have-nots, except for a few undocumented people, who actually immigrated to Europe from the Global South.

    A glance at the great disparities between the Global South and the Global North, in terms of earnings and standard of living, gives one a picture of what is really happening on this planet.

    A person in Spain who has been unemployed for the past ten years is actually eating much better than a person in Somalia who has been working for the past ten years.

    An unemployed person in the United States has a much higher standard of living than the average person who is employed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, and many other countries of the Global South.

    A German citizen who is homeless and unemployed in Germany has better access to medical care than a person in rural Ethiopia who has a home and who is working.

    And homeless children in the United States have access to better schools and educational facilities than children living in villages in Chad, Niger, and many other countries of the Global South.

    All of the protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement and all of the other people holding demonstrations in the United States and Europe should reflect upon these facts.

    The demonstrators in the Global North, who say they are protesting against corporate greed and social injustice, must understand that there will be no justice on this planet until there is justice for the people of the Global South.

    The people of the Global North must wake up to the fact that they must start sharing with the people of the Global South.

    After all, the people of the Global North have had so much for so many years, with much of their wealth stolen from the people of the Global South.

    And they can’t say “We are the 99%.â€
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    There are a couple of flaws in this argument. For one, most of the governments of the glocal poor are so corrupt that aid to these nations never makes it to the people in need. Oil for food is an example. Second, share the wealth will not make poor nations rich, but will very likely make rich nations poor.
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    As I read this article I could only think he was accurately describing the goals of the NWO. Except of course the part where the Truly Haves keep theirs while the Barely Haves and the Have Nots are forced to reach global equality.
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