Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Solution To Poverty In USA 🇺🇸" video.

  1. Najah is a saint. What a profoundly inspirational, caring and effective organisation she and her colleagues have created. I wish she could come to the UK and sort things out. Our many little charities train people for dependency because they have no way to develop a vision of providing skills training programmes alongside support. If they get more money they turn into big businesses in effect... Our government takes in refugees willy-nilly and leave them to it, these people often get lost to an underworld and black economy.
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  2. Having worked in senior roles with, not for, local and central gov, I can tell you for certain from my perspective that it's not the fault of the 'all talk.no action' people. 1. They are educated and trained to fulfil narrow gov/political agendas, they are not trained to be creative and to take initiative, no matter how many great solutions they personally can talk about and would love to carry out. 2. All gov-funded interventions are hedged round with tight legal and political requirements, timetables, tickboxes, notional outcomes that people in remote places have dreamed up to satisfy their political masters' agendas. Most often, these conditions fall way short of what's actually needed and can do more damage than good. 3. People who work for local/central gov are by nature those who need the structure, security and stability (and other things) that working for gov affords them. They're not the most courageous of people, nor are they initiative takers, independent-minded enough, nor are they leaders. No matter how many great solutions they think up, they're quite risk averse and they've fundamentally accepted the quid pro quo of a secure job and commensurate loss of perhaps much of their own agency. This isn't to denigrate gov workers. We're all different, with different aptitudes and talents. 4. There are very few people in the world like Najah, Erin Pizzey, Harriet Tubman, Oskar Schindler, Elizabeth Blackwell, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Florence Nightingale, Martin Luther King..... our communities and schools should encourage more, but that's not what schools are for.
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  3. Ditto UK. That's when they turned universities into businesses attracting more lucrative students and closed down a lot of trade training to shunt those students off to uni. At the same time they opened the doors to low paid immigrants with, they hoped, trade skills. Pure exploitation all round.
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