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To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (1522)	4/5/1999 2:09:00 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 17770

<<Do you seriously believe that those 358 billionaires are the cause of the poverty that exists in the world?>> Aside from not considering cost of living for the nations in which they live, and not knowing whether those figures include traditional peoples, those figures are also totally misleading as you alluded to. Just because <<358 billionaires have more money combined than the annual incomes of countries with 45% of the world's people>> does not mean that <<those 358 billionaires are the cause of the poverty that exists in the world>> as you said Abner. Without those billionaires, a lot more people would be in poverty, and even more people would have a lower standard of living. <<Their lot would be changed not one damn bit. Get real>> Right on. <<You might as well be a billionaire, as far as they are concerned. Maybe your greed is the cause of it all.>> They wouldnt be billionaires if we didnt buy their company's products. Seems like Raven is railing against a Frankenstein's monster, no? <bg> Derek