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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (1078)	12/2/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: Paul Berliner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3536

How can the world be less hungrier? The russians are receiving $5B in food and the 3rd most populous country in the world, indonesia, can barely feed itself 1 meal a day. Yeah, the farms here are yielding bumper crops, but these countries can't afford the bounty, even with commod prices at crazy lows.

To: Chip McVickar who wrote (1078)	12/2/1998 2:30:00 PM
From: Robert Douglas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3536

Chip, A few comments on the article you linked: monde-diplomatique.fr No doubt there is human suffering in the world and no doubt there is hunger. But it is wrong to suggest that the cause of this is wealth distribution. One could easily argue that since conditions have improved during this supposed period of increasing mal-distribution of wealth that we need even a greater gap between rich and poor. Doesn't this follow? The article does rightly point out that man causes much of his fellow man's suffering, but goes nowhere in trying to prove the point that wealth distribution is the cause. This type of article is eerily reminiscent of the arguments at the beginning of the “War on Poverty” in the U. S. when the dollar estimates for eliminating poverty were miniscule. Did any of those promises ever come true? -Robert PS Did anyone notice that the term ultra-liberalism means something very different in other cultures?

To: Chip McVickar who wrote (1078)	12/3/1998 1:46:00 AM
From: Frodo Baxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3536

I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you say "a narrow blind alley perspective is less valuable then a full spectrum education" relating somehow because you presume I've not attended a class of a particular professor? Odd. In fact, when I stated that "distribution remains problematic because there are still a few tinpot dictators left in this world," I was echoing a notion that is quite derivative from Sen. But I digress. At the same time that you would reject statistics, such as from the link provided below, you maintain that 80% of the world is malnourished. That's a rather churlish argument, no? fao.org For me, I prefer data, imprecise though they might be, to wild, unsubstantiated claims seemingly conjured from thin air. You may hazard a different approach.