[FITZ]

It's such a pity --- a country with the same kinds of vast natural resources as the USA --- and which competes with Germany and England in number of billionaires. No good reason at all --- certainly not a reason like lack of natural resources and big oil reserves --- that they have such a high level of suffering and poverty and desperation.

[cyborg]

That's the way the elites like it because it lines their pockets. Just as welfare reform isn't easy, separating the rich from easy money isn't either.