It would have been nice to list a few specifics about the plan and how much it will cost.

1 trillion
10 trillion
100 trillion

?

Money is the root and cure of all evil!

Hope you are enjoying your Pesach Rabbi

Steve

Dear Rabbi Lerner,

We (a small advocacy organisation) have participated to this extent:

Focused our attention on poverty in a region of the world in transition, leveraging funds to help people help themselves out of poverty in Russia, advocating for the same to be deployed to an Islamic community in Crimea stressing the point that by deployment of economic 'Smart Bombs' far greater yields may be returned than the equivalent spend on 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Over the past 4 years, we've been building a 'Marshall Plan' strategy based on the application of business for social purpose, in line with the 'more than full cost recovery' definition made by Dr Yunus. The paper, having been submitted to both US and Ukraine governments begins now to stimulate local influence, as the UN acknowledges the threat of poverty, both to the country and to the rest of Europe not least in the spread of an HIV epidemic.

This is what the author, my colleague Terry Hallman has stressed from the beginning of his advocacy 5 years prior to 9/11, that leaving people in poverty is a recipe for disaster.

This is a 'Marshall Plan for Ukraine' a template for microeconomic development to be deployed alongside conventional infrastructure development and its cost, in the order of 1.5 billion dollars is comparable to the cost of several days invested in the conflict of Iraq.

We are with you, totally.

Jeff Mowatt

Dear Rabbi,

I think the NSP's version of the plan is a good start. Evolution of consciousness is paramount to our success in achieving prosperity and peace for all. Many must let go of the attachment to the old system of things. For example Gordon Brown presides over a developed country where 80%+ of the population suffers from nutritional deficiency, while this benefits the medical industrial complex it is not a sign of evolved consciousness. This is not Gordon Browns fault but it gives one an idea of the challenge and the necessity of an evolution in consciousness and the lack of awareness in a large number of individuals and professional decision making tainted by the desire for artificial profits.

By the way I have spoken to a few people affected by the original Marshall Plan. Many were forced to relocate against their will, having to leave their homes. Not to say it was bad or good which has all to do with perspective. People are not to be treated as cattle and sheep by those that consider themselves elite and force is not the way to control behavior.

One has mapped out executable solutions to all the world's problems, the new system of things, which one might pull together into a concise edition for the short attention spans of the malnourished brains in the developed countries. The systems, industries, professions, and institutions all need to be transformed and redesigned with the new awareness and capabilities. The solutions are not being implemented because I suppose they conflict with the desires and fictions of the status quo. Furthermore it calls into question the real intentions of those that were tasked with solving the problems failed in spite of all the money they have been allocated to do so. Then there is that ego impediment.

If the intentions were real as to solving poverty and malnutrition someone would be on the way to Africa with 15 tons of Amaranth seeds and the simple equipment needed to plant and harvest. Someone would be launching surface soil remineralization projects and building a supply chain. They would be running awareness campaigns on how to boost the immune system and food would be certified for it’s nutritional content and safety. We would be executing a plan to be off oil in seven years and if one does not think it can be done one is not working with the right people.

The plan and the details of it’s execution will indicate the true intention of the planners and their capability of achieving the goals, if it is lacking the people themselves will support an alternate plan that will be presented.

Lastly if anyone is taking bids on ending global poverty, malnutrition, my bid is far less than 100 million. Anyone indicating that it would require more is clueless on how to solve the problems and is probably looking to line their pockets with cash or unwilling to give up various existing profit centers or positions of disproportionate advantage.

The other perspective is this is not what is supposed to happen, because it can’t, rather billions should parish along with their world of fiction, the rich who devised and maintain the current systems from which they benefit being taken out first by the angry hungry mobs, leaving a few having an evolved consciousness to inherit the earth.

I guess we will watch and see how it all plays out, it’s all good, a game the infinite plays.