【kaleidoscope】小组第二次作业 ISSUE56 by Azoi

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56"Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future."


  Generally speaking, a major task for every government is to expand the society's prosperity and ensure its people's interests. Alongside such procedures, more and more problems would inevitably emerge. Referring to such issue, the speaker asserts that solving the immediate problems should be the government's priority. As far as I'm concerned, I basically agree with the speaker, while I also contend that anticipated problems should not be absolutely neglected on behalf of the nation.
  To start with, as a government is often confronting with various problems, and it is extremely significant to settle down the immediate ones, which, in most cases, concern the basic demands and human rights of the nation's masses. For instance, a worldwide economic turmoil is an immediate problem for every nation, in that it's impeding the development of the society and even prejudicing to the interests of its most citizens. Thus, the newly-elected American president, Barack Obama, proposed an elaborate economic stimulus plan right after his inauguration, which by now has already made some breakthroughs in spurring the economy. It's conspicuous that by solving such immediate problem, governments would win public support and most of its nationals would have their benefit maximized. Especially when the resources of a government is largely limited, deploying too much resources on some anticipated problems would be putting the incidental before the fundamental, rendering the whole nation on the brink of collapse.
  However, totally ignorance on the anticipated problems would be another disaster for a nation. Everything's gradual developing process, which is from small to large, from weak to strong, is no exception for problems. Problems in their initial stage, without too much forces intervened, would be much easier to be settled. Therefore, early detection and solution on tiny problems, in other words "to nip the bud", would be much more convenient than late reactions. Pick the economy turmoil again as example, before this tide of bankruptcy and unemployment stroke the US, there were plenty options for the US government to improve the situation. Unfortunately the federal government was too confident to pay adequate attention to the warning signs in the banking system, sticking tightly to the laissez-faire policies, which directly lead to a severe degeneration of the nation's economy. If the US government had made some wise policies on curbing the unhealthy development of its banks, in all probability, the grave crisis could be prevented in time.
  Moreover, an advanced plan on future problems would be favorable in promoting the nation's competitive power, taking the upper hand in the game among superpowers. The USSR, which pooled all its resources on its industry to carry on the cold war against the US, was too stubborn to amend any anticipated problems of its regime, finally met its end in the 1990's.
  In the final analysis, any policy only focused on the immediate problems would be undoubtedly short-seeing, which could even jeopardize the authority of the government in the long run. Thus, as we settled the immediate problems for the moment, the government should not stop taking the anticipated problems into account. Only by this way can a nation survive, even thrive in the future.

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Generally speaking, a major task for every government is to expand the society's prosperity and ensure its people's interests. Alongside such procedures, more and more problems would inevitably emerge. Referring to such issue, the speaker asserts that solving the immediate problems should be the government's priority. As far as I'm concerned, I basically agree with the speaker, while I also contend that anticipated problems should not be absolutely neglected on behalf of the nation.(主题句表意不清，第一次看以为你倾向于immediate，以为while表让步，读完发现是表转折）
  To start with, as a government is often confronting with various problems, and it is extremely significant to settle down the immediate ones, which, in most cases, concern the basic demands and human rights of the nation's masses. For instance, a worldwide economic turmoil is an immediate problem for every nation, in that it's impeding the development of the society and even prejudicing to the interests of its most citizens. Thus, the newly-elected American president, Barack Obama, proposed an elaborate economic stimulus plan right after his inauguration, which by now has already made some breakthroughs in spurring the economy. It's conspicuous that by solving such immediate problem, governments would win public support and most of its nationals would have their benefit maximized. Especially when the resources of a government is largely limited, deploying too much resources on some anticipated problems would be putting the incidental before the fundamental, rendering the whole nation on the brink of collapse.(鼓掌~这段写的真好，语言和逻辑都是上品）
  However, totally ignorance on the anticipated problems would be another disaster for a nation. Everything's gradual developing process, which is from small to large, from weak to strong, is no exception for problems. Problems in their initial stage, without too much forces intervened, would be much easier to be settled. Therefore, early detection and solution on tiny problems, in other words "to nip the bud", would be much more convenient than late reactions. Pick the economy turmoil again as example, before this tide of bankruptcy and unemployment stroke(struck) the US, there were plenty options for the US government to improve the situation. Unfortunately the federal government was too confident to pay adequate attention to the warning signs in the banking system, sticking tightly to the laissez-faire policies, which directly lead to a severe degeneration of the nation's economy. If the US government had made some wise policies on curbing the unhealthy development of its banks, in all probability, the grave crisis could be prevented in time.
  Moreover, an advanced plan on future problems would be favorable in promoting the nation's competitive power, taking the upper hand in the game among superpowers. The USSR, which pooled all its resources on its industry to carry on the cold war against the US, was too stubborn to amend any anticipated problems of its regime, finally met its end in the 1990's.（不太恰当啊~)
  In the final analysis, any policy only focused on the immediate problems would be undoubtedly short-seeing, which could even jeopardize the authority of the government in the long run. Thus, as we settled the immediate problems for the moment, the government should not stop taking the anticipated problems into account. Only by this way can a nation survive, even thrive in the future.

(写的很好啊~再把逻辑线路突出一下就更完美了~）