How to eliminate poverty.

This discussion is an attempt to induce from the facts how a 1st world country could socio-economically eliminate poverty. Every political group believes that eliminating poverty is a good idea.

Modern civilisation can easily eliminate poverty that is not caused by crime or accidents as the gdp per capita indicates. It can also reduce crime considerably, but that discussion can take place in another thread. Commonly in this thread people make irresponsible sweeping assumptions about other posters, this is due to petty foibles which are irrational ideas you have. Ask other posters questions before making sweeping assumptions, for instance I sound very much like a socialist, I am not I am a realist, at this point socialists will believe that I am insulting socialism and saying it is not realistic. I am a realist so you must prove to me the merits of your argument and cannot make any sweeping assumptions. Here is a brief list of things which would decrease poverty.

Maintenance of the market economy. Market economies are much more efficient than planned economies.

Minimum wage respective of what funds a person needs to keep themselves out of poverty. This could be in the form of food stamps and state accomodation and any money a person can earn above minimum wage will be in the form of money. No one will get state accomodation unless they have a job. The state will seek to make the accomodation as economical as possible whilst staying clear of anything that might cause crime or poverty.

Welfare will only go to under 16s, this will be extensive and be aimed entirely at ensuring the person can get a job when they have finnished their education. Parents will not get paid for having children, the money will go to the children to ensure the parents spend the money on their children.

Schools will be privatised.

A good idea would be to train orphans from infancy to work in special forces and as elite pilots as a special warrior-class in the military. Some people might disagree with this.

The government will privatise it's job centres and job advertising/searching agencies.

Hospitals will be privatised.

Insurance companies will be privatised and everyone with a job must pay a small sum of salary to insurance

Tax should be decreased.

I do not know what it is like in america because i have never been there. But in my country no one is homeless if they dont want to be, we have emergency housing and shelter and such. The only homeless people are the mentally ill who are well enough to decide not to be in a home. Its is much the same across all of Europe.

The real poverty is in the third world, mostly in asia and south america, not africa as popular culture would have you believe. The real way to solve this problem is not by giving people money, im sure they would like it but what would they do when the money runs out? What should be done is dropping trade barriers and giving producers a decent price for their goods. Take coffee, fair trade coffee is 15% more for me than the one i use to buy, but for those farming it in poverty its a world of difference and they are no longer in poverty.

Drop the debt(virtual slavery), make free trade free and westerners stop being so greedy.