RESOURCE IMBALANCES

by David Nuttle

Many nations lack the resources the U. S. has been blessed with. A few nations have very few resources of any kind. Unequal resource distribution fueled social and political instability as well as poverty, hunger, diseases, armed conflicts, and environmental degradation. Some resource disadvantaged nations also lack "brain power" required to help them make needed progress. Poor nations having social and economic chaos as well as extensive corruption, in some cases, also have very poor educational systems. These nations are typically identified by national I Q. Developed nations, like Japan and Taiwan, have a national I Q of 106 & less developed nations have a national I Q in the 70s or 60s. The U. S. national I Q is 98.

The U. S. Agency for Intl. Development (USAID) was created to help correct the resource imbalances causing the problems noted above. However, USAID was terminated due to bad management, corruption, & a "woke" focus that had nothing to do with assisting developing nations make needed socioeconomic development progress. As I noted in another blog, any nation unable to grow its economy fast enough to provide jobs for all their youth create pools of frustrated and angry unemployed youth available for recruitment by the bad guys; e. g. the local gangs and criminal elements, drug dealers, human traffickers, terrorists, & insurgents.

Thus, the terrorist groups we need to eliminate will continue to have saving sources of new recruits. We need a better solution if the U. S. hopes to eliminate terrorist and narco-terrorist threats anytime soon.

My solution to the above problem, as outlined in another blog here is to start an innovative "Development Training Group" program. Under this effort, we would identify & vet 50 families from each developing nation we seek to assist. Each family would be background, health, & motivation checked prior to being recruited to be brought to the U. S. for 2-years training in the skills badly needed for their nation to make good economic progress. Each family would need to agree to return, after said training, to their home nations to undertake development support for 3-years. At the end of this work, they would be given the option of returning to the U. S. and be granted American citizenship. This program would give us a quality as well as needed immigration option and grant citizenships similar to that granted foreign nationals

serving 1-year in a branch of our military.

In addition to the above program, the U. S. needs to provide all critical developing nations with extensive entrepreneurship training programs for their unemployed youth. Funds also need to be made available to assist the youth so trained to start new enterprises. Such types of efforts are essential to prevent these youth from being recruited by groups working to destroy the U. S.

In support of our global war on terrorists, there are times when nations in trouble may be in need of population food aid and/or resource grants to prevent their populations from being exploited by a terrorist group. It is far better to "feed them to fight them."

If blessed with great resources the attraction is like a bear being drawn to honey and in this situation the bear will demand a share!!