[The Urban Sombrero]

Absolutely ridiculous. We will always have the poor. Mostly because the poor lack the drive and or the integrity to succeed. Here in this land, and unlike you I can opine from that perspective because I really have been overseas to see how the nations live, one can become a home owner in working at Wal-Mart or McDonalds. Not in downtown Manhattan, but certainly with the boys I run with. The playing field certainly is not about to flip, as you think.

The world system which is presently in place was originally set up by none other than King Nebuchadnezzar himself. Finance, commerce, government, lines of communication, law, retribution, the whole thing. And though that system will collapse soon enough, it will not be replaced until the Lion of the Tribe of Judah comes to rule the nations with a rod of iron for the duration of the millennium.

I will say this however, your vocabulary has definitely improved though, the thrust of your ramblings have taken on a professor Irwin Corey flair.

"Now, there you go again.". Congratulations on your passport and in your travels by which you gained expertise in the cultures and peoples of foreign lands.