Rich countries such as the United States need to limit their assistance of poorer countries because it does not teach them how to succeed in the long run. When money and food are simply given to people, they do not learn how to acquire them in the future. No effort would have to be put into receiving essentials, and eventually people will become lazy. Since unemployment checks and food stamps have little requirements as to who can get them, unemployed citizens are basically given just as much as workers. The hard-working citizens can ultimately obtain equal resources as people that don't even have jobs. As the article states, when someone is simply given fish to eat they do not learn how to get more; they just ask. When that same person is taught how to catch a fish, they will learn how to catch another. They can now fend for themselves without the assistance of others. The same principle applies to our world: if someone is flat-out given food and money, they will not have the opportunity to progress on their skills of gaining resources on their own. Excess food in countries that do not have such large populations should not be handed out to less fortunate countries without those countries providing compensation. Whether this compensation be that they put effort into changing their ways of life like enforcing birth control, poor countries must show that they are pushing for improvement. The Green Revolution uses this concept by sharing beneficial food cultivating techniques, like miracle rice and miracle wheat, with developing countries. Although overpopulated foreign countries such as India and China receive medical assistance from developed countries, it eventually leads to a competition of resources because of their large populations. A larger population creates less food and medical care for everyone else in the population. This means that with the aid of resources from other countries, poor countries eventually become overpopulated. The immigration of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans into the United States contributes to the poor economic state of our country. Employers abuse the power that immigrants will work for very cheap labor. Jobs are taken away from original citizens that were in need of jobs and were willing to do the same jobs. If immigration was limited like the example set in Hawaii, there would be little problems concerning overpopulation. Birth control can assist with this problem as well. Instead of sharing food and medical care with foreign countries, the United States needs to share techniques of obtaining them as well as birth control. This would ultimately hinder the population growth in densely populated countries and allow them to prosper. With developing countries doing well, there would be little need for those citizens to immigrate to the United States. The economy of the United States would not suffer from the dangers of cheap labor. There is no solution that would completely solve the conflict of developed countries risking their own societies to help others. Allowing a limit on the amount of help given to others will do the most good for the givers and receivers. Teaching ways of succeeding rather than simply handing over resources will benefit most countries in the long run.
