Edward VIII Quotes
Something must be done.
Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, 1894-1972, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Comment on the very high unemployment in Wales in the 1930s
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The problem of African Poverty as revealed by the media has had a strong emotional effect on many, especially the images of sick and undernourished children. This quotation and {583200} are good examples of sophisticated observers calling for anything to be done even though there was doubt that it would actually help reduce the problem. Specific efforts to reduce poverty in third world nations have been unfortunately not very successful. Many have called for continual and even greatly increased efforts despite the fact that success was doubtful. A few critics objected to the waste of resources and called for radical new approaches to foreign aid.
This observation tends to be true with groups of people with responsibility as in a legislature like Congress.
Keynes thought that within 100 years, governments could control economies so that recessions and depressions would not tale place and a sufficient standard of living could be maintained so that poverty would be eliminated. By the end of the 20th century, no nation had accomplished this and few tried. By the 21st century, globalization made it impossible for a single nation or even a small group of nations to control a nation’s economy.
Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
