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But even if we act to erase material poverty,there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty ofsatisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all.Too muchand for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellenceand community values in the mere accumulation of materialthings.

Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if wejudge the United States of America by that - that Gross NationalProduct counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, andambulances to clear our highways of carnage.

It counts special locks for our doors and thejails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction ofthe redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars forthe police to fight the riots in our cities. It countsWhitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and thetelevision programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys toour children.

Yet the gross national product does not allow forthe health of our children, the quality of their education or thejoy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry orthe strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our publicdebate or the integrity of our public officials.

It measures neither our wit nor our courage,neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor ourdevotion to our country, it measures everything in short, exceptthat which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everythingabout America except why we are proud that we are Americans.