Open Letter To The President of the United States

 How to do right by the world’s poor?

By Eric Stradford, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired

AMWS, October 1, 2024, Atlanta – According to the United Nations, nearly half of the world’s population lives in poverty, with over 800 million people in extreme poverty.  Extreme poverty is defined as surviving on less than $1.25 a day.  The goal of the U.N. and its partners is to eradicate poverty everywhere by 2030, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The United States of America is one of 193 member states of the U.N. today.

Howard Buffett, 69 is Warren Buffett’s son.  According to Fortune Magazine, Howard will be trusted with his dad’s $144 billion fortune.   He says its ‘not so easy to give away money’ if you want to do it right.  Original trustees for Buffet’s 68 billion trust might agree.   I believe Howard is wrong.  On any given day, any two of 2.4 billion followers might simply draw on the endowment, “all things are possible.”  I am one of them.

Community Reinvestment is as easy as declaring #NoPoverty2030 #MissionPossible in the name of #BlackJesus if y’all ain’t scared.  It requires believing in the mission, speaking (or writing the vision) and putting a plan in action.  In other words, what are you going to do about it?  So, what is it that frightens Warren, Donald, Diddy, and the top two-percent account holders of the world’s Money-n-the-Bank?  Debt Forgiveness!

As Americans count the days to vote for the next U.S. president, the current president, is also one of 2.4 billion followers of Jesus The Christ through whom ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.  President Joe Biden is pressed to make good on a campaign promise for Healing The Soul of America.  On October 13-15, President Biden was to meet with President João Lourenço of Angola.  The rescheduled mission, now set for after the U.S. elections has no clear agenda other than signaling a shift in succession as usual. If it happens, it will be the 46^th president’s first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa since taking office. 

Candidate Donald Trump did not travel to Africa.  Vice President Kamala Harris has already visited Sub-Saharan Africa and pledged $100 million during a week-long three nation tour.

An Invitation to One Nation Under God

Generation Alpha is the term used to describe the generation of people born (or who will be born) between 2010 and 2025. They are the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z. They are the first generation born entirely in the 21st century and the third millennium.

Their parents are mostly Millennials, and their older siblings are Gen Zs. These tech-savvy digital natives and are already proving themselves worthy of global investment.  They are the bridge between dreaming the impossible and getting things done.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, two or more Generation Alpha believers are on a mission to engage 2.4 billion followers in declaring UNSDG Goal 1 of 17, #NoPoverty2030 #MissionPossible.  The United Nations believes $3.3-4.5 trillion USD per year is needed to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  A bottoms-up needs assessment might support the belief, "Ending poverty is not a gesture of charity, but an act of justice."

The President of the United States is Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.  On his way to Africa, President Biden is invited to partner with Generation Alpha Secret Millionaires.  As such, a sole source defense contract through AFRICOM might signal immediate support for declaring #NoPoverty2030 #MissionPossible.

Mr. Buffett or any responsible citizen might simply invest $1 to $144 billion in the established crowd-funding campaign.

An Invitation To #InGodWeTrust

#BlackJesus is a faith-based spiritual value common to a family of Free Africans. The spirit of the original Free African Society, an American Value or (Common Vision), is undervalued in the U.S. Federal Debt as Stolen Peoples’ Equity.   

The number of Christians around the world has nearly quadrupled in the last 100 years, from about 600 million in 1910 to more than 2 billion in 2010. But the world’s overall population also has risen rapidly, from an estimated 1.8 billion in 1910 to 6.9 billion in 2010. As a result, Christians make up about the same portion of the world’s population today (32%) as they did a century ago (35%).  Debt-forgiveness and caring for the poor are among the key deliverables in a single command to “love one another.”  

534 million of the 1.1 billion poor people live in Sub-Saharan Africa. In contrast to the Middle East, religion is not so much a source of conflict as a source of hope. Religious leaders and movements are a major force in civil society and a key provider of relief and development for the needy, particularly given the widespread reality of failed states and collapsing government services. The number of Muslims living between the Sahara Desert and the Cape of Good Hope has increased more than 20-fold, rising from an estimated 11 million in 1900 to approximately 234 million in 2010. The number of Christians has grown even faster, soaring almost 70-fold from about 7 million to 470 million. Sub-Saharan Africa now is home to about one-in-five of all the Christians in the world (21%) and more than one-in-seven of the world’s Muslims (15%).  Depending on an institution’s religious doctrine, a vast majority of Free Africans, be they Christian or Muslim, relate or are related to God living within them.  Translation of the word FAITH to some 2100 indigenous languages begins to measure the loss due to European colonization.

But, if there is a will, there is a way.

World Bank Trust Funds

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

Healing The Soul of America – The Biden Administration negotiated a strategy with the U.S. Congress concerning an increase in the U.S. debt ceiling.  The two branches agreed to decide later. This action demonstrates the aphorism, Time is Money as an historic American value.

United States Africa Command (africom.mil)  General Langley briefs U.S. Congress on Whole of Government Security.  The concept is perhaps more realistic from an African perspective rather than American.  General Langley’s “Learning Journey”  may have revealed a path toward healing America’s soul and securing world peace.

Veterans | TheEnterpriZe – TheEnterpriZe LLC is an SBA Certified Veteran-owned Small Business It seeks to sustain a 1985-day mission (January 1, 2025-June 9, 2030) to engage faith and government partners in declaring #NoPoverty2030 #MissionPossible.

Youth Achievers USA Institute (youthusa.net) – Qualifies Gen Alpha “believers” as Secret Millionaires committed to “Cheerful Giving” to achieve #NoPoverty2030.  

Free African Society (FAS2) – The YouthUSA grant-making strategy develops FAITH FAMILY TRUSTS as the sustaining foundation for a youth-led joint venture.

Since World War II, the US has provided more foreign aid to Israel than to any other country. Israel received the second-largest amount of US aid in 2022 after Ukraine, where the US committed $12.4 billion. The two countries received 4.8% and 18.1%, respectively, of all foreign aid granted that year.

A $1 billion commitment to Ubuntu development would signal a shift in America’s foreign policy priorities from war to peace.  Components for a replicable 5-year $100-m Whole of Government Security demonstration begins with a sole-source federal contract to a U.S. SBA certified veteran-owned small business for small trust development.

A total of 10 FAITH FAMILY TRUSTS over a 5-year timeline models intergenerational capacity building across Sub-Saharan Africa.  Each of 10 FAITH FAMILY TRUST translates the word FAITH into an indigenous African language.

IMMEDIATE ACTION: President Joe Biden’s Staff for Africa Mission – Declare #NoPoverty2030 #MissionPossible in the name of #BlackJesus.

Timeline:  #ThePentecostProject Countdown to #NoPoverty2030 TODAY –  Pentecost Sunday June 9, 2030

·         Warren Buffett’s Secret Millionaires

·         Remnant of the Historic Black Church in America (HBCUs)

·         World Bank Black Jesus Card or Charity Charge

·         World Bank Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

·         General Michael Langley, AFRICOM

·         Lesotho FAITH FAMILY TRUST (Sesotho - Tumelo)  

·         Cote D’Ivoire FAITH FAMILY TRUST (Baoule - Soulafilai)

·         Angola FAITH FAMILY TRUST

·         Ghana FAITH FAMILY TRUST

 Managing Unit: GGEVP

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