Let's go to school comrade

There is an interesting suggestion by New York mayor Michale Bloomberg. Even if the cash money, or the reward will not be that great, it will provide a much valuable incentive for people to follow up with those "healthy choices". It should bring those poor people a step closer to the opportunities available to others who simply follow the main order. Sadly, the money is claimed not to be coming from government funds. Isn't the city of New York itself responsible for its own citizens and therefore public money be used? I guess that can prove unpopular with voters. Can such socialist policies be at all implemented in America? On the other hand some big companies make HUGE profits. We are not talking here huge revenue, but HUGE profits (profit = revenue - cost). "What an unjust world" I might say, and "that's life" you could say. Because it is the life now, I don't think it has been that way in the past. Then again with the spread of globalisation, there is a larger market on which to operate. But back on the issue in New York, I don't see anything wrong for those proftable companies to redistribute their wealth among the society, especially those in need. And more than enough of such large, multinational, profitable firms are located in the city that never sleeps.

But still it makes me wonder why the richest country in the world can not take care of its problems first before trying to fix other countries' problems...