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本帖最后由 wisle 于 2009-7-30 17:27 编辑
TOPIC: ISSUE56 - "Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future."
WORDS: 467
TIME: 00:50:11
DATE: 2009-7-25 下午 10:57:36
这段时间上课,所以较忙,落下不少小组作业,真是感到抱歉!
在听完XDF对Issue的讲解后,感觉还是小有收获,明天开始讲Argument,对A进行第四次认识?看来认识真的是很曲折!
原文有几处错误,已经在2楼提出,谢谢Comorain的指正
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Today and tomorrow are on the two sides of a balance respectively, whose pointer swings. However, the pointer of the balance, to large extend, inclines to the side of today instead of tomorrow. Albeit anticipated problems are sometimes necessary to solve previously, government should focus more their attention on solving the immediate problems in the future(present).
First of all, blind to tomorrow anticipated problems is incorrect. No doubt, anticipated problems influence the life of our descendants. Concerning our children, we can not help think we will be shame if we left a troublesome and chaos world to the next generation. As an example, Human Gene project can illustrate our sense of responsibility to out children. This project has been taken 20 years or so, with cooperation of many countries, such as USA, China, and Japan and so on. When the day this great project achieves, some cancers and heart attack will be cured. The medicine will enter a new age.
Admittedly, anticipated problems are important for our development, but immediate problems will shock the society sometimes, in terms of surviving. Urgent problems are not only serious to the present, but also the development of future. Immediate problems endanger the stability of the society, and become the block of tomorrow, since prosperity of tomorrow is born on today. Unemployment, for example, is an urgent problem for every government around the world, which is relative to the surviving of people. In 1920s, the Great Depression led hundreds of thousands of worker to lose their jobs. At that moment, the unemployment worker had to do some things even illegally to survive. At last, Keynes, who said (I paraphrase):"In the long time, we all die.” directed the government implemented some urgent short-run monetary and fiscal policies to pull the society from the troubles. That means government should solve the immediate problems.
At last analysis, it is reasonable to concede that immediate problems are vital for a society, and government should pay more attentions on tomorrow. (it is reasonable to concede that tomorrow are vital for a society, but government should pay more attentions on immediate problems.)Every thing comes from the past. Likewise, immediate problems in present come from the past, and tomorrow problems come from today. Thus, government should resolve the problem now when they are small and taking actions now is much easer than tomorrow. Similarly, if the channel of a river is blocked today, we don't take measures since it influence nothing to the present. However, when in tomorrow, in case that the blockage is broken down, the flood will take everything away. Therefore, it is well-grounded for government to solve the present problems which are the springs of urgent problems in tomorrow.
Without solving the anticipated problems, we are selfish; without solving the immediate problems, we hardly survive. In a nutshell, our government should hold balance for today and tomorrow generally, yet a bit more attention is paid on the present at the same time.
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