〓DIES IN FLAMS〓 Issue56 by jessicalulu

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56 Governmants should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to sove the anticipated problems of the future.

Several decades ago, when John. F. Kennedy made the famous Moon Speach at Rice University, his inspiring words deeply touched not only the hearts of those young students and high-tech professionals, but also a vast majority of American citizens. Thus, with the efforts of great amount of technological as well as fisical support, the country, in behalf of all nations over the globe, managed to make the first visit to the moon, realising the dreams of millions of people on the earth. While after acheiving such tremendous accomplishments in human history with a great deal of financial cost, some people would ask, was it really worth doing? Well, since this kind of human behavior dose not really make practical benefits for the mass population, it should be a essential concern for any nation to take this issiu into consideration, whether to focus more on confronting problems or to emphasize more on future problems.
Probablely most people will agree to sove immediate problems of today rather than tomorrow, I believe they are reasonable. Everybody living in the world should  firstly be satisfied with his/her vital requirements, so that he/she can keep alive and then think about other problems. Just try to visualise, if one country, whose immediate unsolving problems are the food and clothing supply of her starving populations, how can we expect she can provide more splendid plans for the future development. Similarly, during the world warII, those countries at war were mostly anxious to fight against enemies and tried to ensure the arms' suppliment instead of whether these bombs or bullets would destroy the environment or not. Thus, whenever a country face up to a serious problem, it is in most cases significant to take it into first priority.
However, choosing immediate problems over anticipated ones are sometimes problemetic, especially in today's society, when problems are not entirely isolated, conversely,  they are interrelated and seems more complicated. Any strategy towards an apparently immediate issiu might have a potential enormous effects on the future, thus we are required to be more prudent when making the dicisions. For instance, in order to develop the economy of a small village, the government decide to build up a factory which might produce profitable products, while it turns out that the factory release polluted air and water and thus the enviroment was damaged as well as inducing more serious problems of the future. This scenario truly illustrats the possible mistakes to make by putting on more emphasis on short-term benefits.
Besides, we human beings are obliged to concern about the future, and the well-being of our offsprings. We are bound to establish a more comfortable living conditions for our children and children's children. We should not limit our attemps only to the days we can see, but to serve as much as we can for the world as a whole. Just take, the Human Geno Programe, as an example, it is a typical anticipated problem, which may not bring much substantial good to us, even to the researchers, while in the long run, with continuing technology advancements, dramatical usefulness will show up and nurture our future fellow people. In this condition, governments should never give up trying solving the future problems.
To sum up, I would like to claim it again that governments should better balance the short-term and long-term problems, since they are so closely related. Although the future is unknown, many questions are unanswered, many problems are unsolved, we should never give up trying; we should never only focus on the up-to-date questions, and we should never say that certern things we do are useless-since we never know what the future might be.