Imagine
If we had electric cars
we could have parking meters
that charged those cars
well shopping or at work
deducting the cost
automatically from our banks
allowing electric cars
to be charged at work, home and play
Desalination plants
could pump water up onto the mountains
allowing nature to deliver it through streams
filling the rivers, when nature fails to provide rain
we could build more dams
in rivers now flowing with water
one mans problems
are another man's hurdles
let's find solutions
and make a better life
If you create work, in third world country's
the people having money and paying tax
provide the tax to create the schools
with the money from wages
they can pay medical expenses for their children
eyesight problems and sickness can be cured
people having jobs and getting an education
have better lives raise families and have respect
Governments with tax can afford
to have Army's and police.
you can lead the world with violence
and like Stalin, kill millions that disagree with you
or you can lead the world with respect and honesty
creating a better world for everybody
companies forget the worker is also the consumer
if you don't pay reasonable wages
they can't afford to buy your products
we need governments that create balance
the wealthy create jobs we need jobs
the workers are the consumers we need wages
for a country to be healthy
you need to see the whole picture and provide balance
if you keep replacing people with machines
you destroy the balance required in society
15,000 children die every day from starvation
we should be ashamed of that we could do better
imagine one world, one people
all working together as friends
all building a better world
investing to overcome our problems.
Copyright © Bernard Barclay | Year Posted 2020
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