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TOPIC: ISSUE56 - "Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future."
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TIME: 00:43:10
DATE: 2010-07-22 15:00:26

It is true that governments should pay more attention on solving the immediate problems of today. But that is not means we should not focus more on them rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future. That's because problems are not important because of the time they show up and governments should be far-sighted and have the responsibility to make decisions after comprehensive consideration.
Firstly, governments should focus on some immediate problems of today. For example, governments will never hesitate to face up to immediate problems like foreign invasion and natural disaster. That's because that kind of problems directly threaten the public safe and security. However there are problems not so serious but also immediate ones of today governments have to deal with, like the shortage of educational resources and the food security and so on. Governments should keep all kinds of immediate problems in mind and try their best to solve them, which comes out of the responsibilities of governments.
Secondly, immediate problems are not always more important than the anticipated problems of the future. Take the environment pollution as an example to illustrate this. My house is located in a small town surrounded by mountains where is rich for forest products, but most people there are poor which is the most immediate problem today. So the government there builds up a workshop to produce furniture from the trees on the mountains. The immediate problem is solved and the environment is seriously undermined, so is the state of health of people there. Though governments there have already realized the problem, but they focus more on economic development-the immediate problem. There are problems similar to that almost anywhere, however, there are also governments acting the same ways as the issue says.
In-depth analysis tells us that governments are not always forced to choose from immediate problems and anticipated ones in the future. Sometimes, the solving of each of them can help to solve others and they together forms positive cycles. What's more there are problems prerequisite for each other. A simple example is that the solving of immediate problems can prevent us from suffering the anticipated ones, and on the other side, focusing on the problems can keep some problem that is going to become immediate ones away from our human being. As a government which is made up of complicate departments, should have the ability to make the relationship between those two kinds of problems clear and carry out a comprehensive system of methods to solve them.
I have to concede that the sources that governments are limited, but the way of focusing more on solving the immediate problem of today is not always the right way. That is because focusing on some immediate problems may make us lose the best opportunity to solve other problems. In the national level, the poverty is always the biggest problem because we cannot exclude is completely, but if governments focusing on that it will lose chance to develop and defeat its aims to be rich and powerful in the end.
In summary, government should not compose a sequence of problems according how immediate they are and the time they take place. As a unity, the government should take both kind of problem into consideration, while even if they have to choose, governments should carry out effective measures after in-depth investigation of all problem no matter that of today or future and immediate or not.