 12-06-2006, 10:35 PM
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Chris Chavez
Joined on 10-21-2006
Posts 6
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Wow. What an opportunity for some good 'ole fashion
creativity. Now, to the task at hand - keeping in mind that I am
going to take some liberties when considering the political reality of
the world we live in.
If I could create my own Millennium Development Goals my first priority
would be...drum role please... financial redistribution, not across
state borders per se, but definitely across state social
institutions. There is such a disparity between the enormous
amount of money being spent on defense and security in some of the
richest parts of the world and the humble pickings available to
projects to provide some of the poorest parts of the world with an
ability to meet their basic nutritional needs. From my
perspective, it makes little sense to spend such exorbant amounts on
things that are giving states their fourth or fifth layers of
technological armor, so to speak, when there are some who are
struggling to stay alive in their naturally bestowed skins.
My first goal, then, would be:
1. To set out the task of demanding that for every
dollar/pound/rubel/shilling or other currency spent by UN member states on defense,
security, or any other type of military capability, twice that amount
must be given, donated, dedicated, or pledged to aid the poor,
homeless, and starving of the world to maintain at least a minimum of
bodily, or physical, security. And not only this... that from
year to year, or over a specific set of benchmarks, this ratio of
military dollar to human dollar will increase and it will do so with
the aim of dissuading those who would use money to prop up a selfish
form of power - that they would eventually know that for every ounce of
currency they spend on military power they will have to spend 100 times
that amount on reinforcing a sense of human power. For what
sense, really, does it make to protect life at the risk of abolishing
its reason for being?
A simple mechanism - ratio equality, I'll call it - to ensure that
money is truly being spent on the things that count most - and it is
being spent most on those things that are most fundamental to the
spirit, if maybe not the actual intent, of the UN charter.
I'm going to have to think real hard about what my second goal would be.
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