[maro]

Brazil is very different from 30 years ago when I lived there...such a chasm between poor and rich, and not much of a middle class in between...these are the breeding grounds for communism. Look at Lula. Bazil already is pretty socialist. I fear that there will be more redistribution. Land owners can't count on being exempt from the social turmoil.

[lelio]

such a chasm between poor and rich, and not much of a middle class in between...these are the breeding grounds for communism. Look at Lula. Bazil already is pretty socialist.

Are you talking about the future of the US? Who is getting hit hardest in the recent bout of offshoring and outsourcing? The middle class. Who is going to be left after its all said and done? The rich CEOs that used the system and the serfs that clean their pools.
Maybe there'll be a middle class in India (that's likely) or China (not so likely). But I can't see one lasting here.