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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."
WORDS: 526 TIME: 0:45:43 DATE: 2006-9-8
第二段:政府的本质,通常决定了一些领导人注重眼前利益,解决眼前问题
第三段:注重眼前问题的危害
第四段:现在做的事, 要为以后考虑
Should governments focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future, as the speaker claims? Admittedly, governments prefer to solve immediate problems for the reason that they can achieve these goals in the short-term, and it can also serve them in election and reelection events. However, as far as I am concerned, if governments pay much more attention and job on solving immediate problems rather than on anticipated problems, it will ultimately do disserve to the people, as well as to the society. While countless factors affect my attitude to this topic, there are three obvious aspects listed as follow.
The first reason for my argument has to with the nature of governments which are comprised of political leaders, legislators, bureaucrats and so forth. By virtue of their nature, they are more concerned with short-term and practical interests which can carry benefit for their election and reelection events. For example, some mayors, in their tenure, are far more concerned with such aspects as the rate of economic growth, and job growth, but less concerned with protecting environment, and other respects which will carry grave consequences for people as well as for the society in future. In short, in some cases governments have focused far more on solving the immediate problems of today than trying to solve the enduring, pressing and anticipated problems of the future.
However, few would dispute that focusing more on solving the immediate problems of today, and not on solving the anticipated problems of the future, has brought about grave consequences to people and to the society. For instance, in order to expand economy, governments allow companies freely to emit enfluences, which seriously pollute the environment as a result; in order to gain land that can be cultivated, governments allow clear-cutting the forests, which can set into motion a chain of species extinctions which ultimately endanger our humans as a species. In short, pursuing short-term interests and hastily solving the immediate problems of today, regardless of potential consequences it might brought about, often amount to a net loss for humanity and for society.
Furthermore, what is also worth noticing fact is that governments should be concerned with the future effects of the actions they take today. History informs us it will remember the person who contribute meaningfully to the enduring problems and anticipated problems of the future, rather than the person who "solve" the immediate problems which can be forgotten in a short time span. For example, history will remember Teddy Roosevelt who built the Panama Canal and National Park System which spawned great benefits for people as well as for the society in worldwide. Think about another opposite instance which is so call "Star Wars" defense initiative supported by Reagan Administration. Unfortunately, this project is proved to be ill-conceived and is a large waste of dollars that can be applied to addressing such anticipated problems of the future and other enduring problems.
In the final analysis, I strongly disagree with the speaker's statement that governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems rather than solving the anticipated problems of the future. On balance, it will provide disserve to the people and to the society. |
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