[A Navy Vet]

Screw 'em...I'm sick of the whining. As pointed out above, their societies have had hundreds of years to develop past their primitive levels. They have NO desire to do so, and would rather languish in their savagery and feign victimhood. My compassion is at an end for those who will not help themselves. Other than Israel, the middle east is a blight on humanity and has contributed little to nothing towards the advancement of mankind.

[freeforall]

Poverty is inevitable in an unfree socitey but it is after all easier to blame the west or even better just blame america.

"A recent story on Afghan schools described a teacher who holds up a wealth pie chart. America, she shows her students, controls this huge slice of the pie, leaving a tiny sliver for us Afghans. The not-so-subtle point? Afghans suffer poverty because of America's disproportionate wealth." maybe all the wealth we have is just due to nature rather than effort.

So based on that logic could we conclude that the wealth created by Thomas Edison caused poverty?All the riches he reaped benefited no one Huh