Poverty is a global problem

Dear Mr. Ghosh

The poor people of India are as much our responsibility is yours. Poverty is a man made problem. Poverty does not exist in the wild. Human beings have survived very well under the harshest conditions with no money at all. Kalahari Desert Bushman for example. Eskimos and others living in extreme cold.

The need to tackle climate change gives us all a wonderful opportunity to examine why poverty exists and how we create poverty. It is a man-made phenomenon, we are all responsible.

Stated in very simple terms, poverty is a lack of money, which occurs when and where money is used as the means of exchange. Therefore the fault lies with man’s inability to understand money, how to use money correctly, without the abuse of money.

The first step for us all to take, is to decide upon the purpose of money. What is the purpose of money? because if that is not clearly stated, we abuse money. For money cannot be fit for purpose, if its purpose is not known and agreed, by all who use it. Money is the means of exchange, which we have used to advance beyond a barter system of economics. Money must be fit for that purpose and not used for any other purpose.

In the modern world, money is hardly used at all, so that what we take to be money cannot be fit for the purpose of money. New money is now issued as credit, by the global bankers. We are forced to borrow new money into existence.

For example all those very poor people of India and elsewhere, are drastically short of money, so that they require a vast increase in the money supply. There is only one source of new money which is credit, and is better known as debt. We shove the poor people, ever deeper and deeper into debt and then watch them die of starvation. Guilt for this obscenity lies heavily upon those of us in the West, who profit from the credit industry. I would like to challenge you for failing to challenge the West regarding our abuse of money and for setting the trap for you to emulate our success, by attempting to live by our example.

If you read the attached letter and observe the fact that we in the West are financial criminals, endangering the future of Planet Earth. You could then strike a really powerful and affective blow for the large number of poor people in India, living in conditions we cannot even confront and observe. Challenge the practice of using credit as a global currency which makes the rich a 1000 times richer and pushes the very poor into the next world. Perhaps it is better not to have lived at all, then to spend the whole of one’s life, from cradle to the grave, in starvation.

In my language starvation is a form of torture. Say the word and I will explain how the Prime Minister of India could lead the whole world out of our corrupt and hellish economic disaster.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB

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