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发表于 2004-3-23 22:26:04
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好几天忙得不行,没有写了今天挤出一篇,大家不要客气。马上给大家改作文。
issue3、"It is more important to allocate money for immediate, existing social problems than to spend it on long-term research that might help future generations."
The speaker asserts that to allocate money for immediate, existing social problems is more important than to finance the long-term research, and I seriously doubt. As far as I am concerned, both the immediate questions and the long-term researches weigh the same to the development of the society. Overemphasizing either of them will lead to unpredictable damage to the society.
Firstly and fundamentally, the contemporary world we live in are important to us. We inhale the air every second and we drink the water everyday, hence, we care about every immediate, existing social problems that reduce the quality of our lives. The pollution, the security, the justice of the government, or the public health are all the focus of the modern people. When we inhale the toxic fumes we hope the government could allocate more money to purify it; when we suffer the threat of the social disorder, we hope the government could allocate more money to fight with the crimes; when the press freedom or the human right is violated, we hope the government could allocate money to improve it; and when we are in the danger of the deadly epidemic, we hope the government can improve the conditions of our public health. Therefore, each question is closely related to our own lives, so it is important to allocate the money to solve it. Take the SARS epidemic as an example, why the whole world was so concerned with it and allocate a lot of money on it? It threats our lives.
Conversely, we should not neglect the long-term research that will benefit our future generations. First, the current well-being we enjoy were accumulated from generation to generation, and a large quantity of them were the fruits of our predecessors, who allocated money to launch the long-term researches without an aim to solve immediate, existing problems. The government or the groups invested money in the long-term researches with the great number scientists evolved in it only because they of the believed that those researches could benefit the humankind. Secondly, if we care little about the long-term research, we could not guard against the sudden attack by unpredictable social problems. Why we feel great fear about the SARS epidemic in 2003? It is not only because we almost know nothing about it when the first case was found, but because the ground of public health system was so shaky. Consider that if our predecessors had care much about the public health system and had allocated enough money to prop up the research of the contagious diseases, the situation today we are facing would be totally different. Either the historical retrospection or the current experience tell us that we should pay much attention to the long-term research, and every generation is living under the shades of the predecessors’ trees.
Therefore, it is an essential problem to the government or the authority to decide how to allocate the money. The finance policy can settle a nation’s future, not only on the base of its’ property left, but on the base of that whether it is a well-developed society. If a society wants to be a well-developed society with the great expectation, it should balance the two factors efficiently. Nowadays, the China government faces the same problem. The government has to take great effort and pay a tremendous quantity of money to solve the existing problems, such as the poverty of north-west, and it has to evolve in the top scientific researches to catch up with the world because the researches can help future generations even if they can not solve the current problems.
To sum up, a far-sighted society should tactfully balance the money allocation both in current use and the future benefits. Only by the reasonable distribution can the society develop in a health way and make for the prosperous future. |
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