Thinking in general requires our brain to ask questions. We all do it consciously and unconsciously. The answers our brain formulates is strictly dependent on the quality of question that is being asked. If our negative thought pattern was 'Why am I always broke?' First of all, it already presupposes that we aren't making any money. And at the same time our brain must answer the question and tell us why we're broke. The usual answer our brain must come up with is, 'Because you're an idiot when it comes to finances'.
The nation's median household income last year was $49,445, 2.3 percent lower than 2009 levels. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, was lower last year than any year since 1997! Really? I hope that you are not still counting on the government's economic recovery to save you...
If the American economy is to truly change, it will come, not when Christians justify their laziness, or Congress allowing the President to spend another half trillion dollars on job creation, or by raising taxes on the rich which is a laugh, but when every Poverty intoxicated American goes to FA, a.k.a Financial Anonymous, and takes accountability for their own personal economies.
You see... I used to be one of those die hard MLM junkies who joined lots of companies thinking I was going to make a fortune! I loved the concept of the product, or I was totally enamored with the pay plan, or I dreamed my upline would lead me to riches. I just knew I could make it in MLM, but I just kept coming up short. Maybe you know what I am talking about... I was spending more money than I was making on a consistent basis and my wife was about to kill me.
But it is very tricky to arrive at hasty calculations. Let us build a model. Let us suppose a household of four in a rural setting - a laborer, his wife and two kids below ten years of age. The laborer is the sole earning member and gets Rs. 120 or per day. Given four persons in the household, it translates to Rs. 30 per person and he is above the Ahluwalia poverty line. But he does not get work every day. Now let us suppose he gets work only 200 days in a year, amounting to Rs. 24000 or Rs. 65 per day and Rs. 16 per person. Does he qualify for government doles? Or will the data collector write in the form that the person earns Rs. 120 per day for a family of four and is above the poverty line?
We have an opportunity to make a difference for children by breaking the cycle. More than one billion people (one in five) live on less than one dollar US each day. We can make a difference working together to end world poverty, and we can do it within our generation if we work together. There are many excellent organizations where you can get involved, either by contributing your money or volunteering your time, knowing that even a tiny gift will make a huge difference to a person who is hanging in the balance between life and death. The cycle will be broken as we help children to see that their life is worthwhile, give them hope for a future, and pull them out of international eradication the grips of the poverty mindset. And we can do it one child at the time.