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How Does Social Security Help To Underdeveloped Poor Countries

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Picture years down the road, you are trying to get ahead in life, but debt continues to drag you down. A family to provide for and someone is constantly breathing down your neck to pay your debts. Can you imagine the sudden relief, of your debt being paid, every hard-earned penny being your own, and finally your family having enough food on the table.
Now lets apply this to underdeveloped poor countries. As the country struggles to get ahead, international lenders drown them in their overwhelming debt, preventing them from every rising to the surface.
Thus my first contention is Mercy. Mercy is having compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. As God has mercy on us, we should have mercy on others. God commands us to be perfect, holy, and righteous, but these traits are unattainable and God sovereignly understands, daily pouring His mercy out on us. By the same token, indebted poor countries cannot live up to the
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Imagine receiving news that your husband is dead. Three kids to provide for and you just lost your job. What are you going to do? If you are an American, social security may help to soften the financial nose dive. The definition of social security according to Merriam-Webster is: A program in which the government provides money to people who are unable to work because they are old, disabled, or unemployed. This is the highest act of humaneness. How does this apply to our resolution? As an American, you cannot be against removing the debt of highly indebted countries unless you also condemn social security. Social security is there to soften the blow of individuals with health problems, unemployment, and old age. If social security wasn't there, what would these individuals do? Go into debt, for they simply cannot work. Thus international lenders parallel social security, the main difference they demand a return
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