In a past Blog I wrote about why we need rich people. Some of you may disagree to some extent and that's OK, but lets do a short comparison between the two alternatives.
The U.S. is the richest country in the world while most of the continent of Africa contains the poorest people in the world. In Africa, a large number of the citizens are hungry and many are sick and dying because of poverty. They destroy their forests to get fuel for cooking causing the land to become a creeping desert.
Years ago rich settlers from Europe began living in Africa because of the natural resources of rubber, tin, gold, cocoa, coffee and diamonds. The native laborers worked and were paid wages that enabled them to afford a modest but much better life style. The settlers built railroads, roads, hospitals etc. This lasted for many years until the local leaders drove the settlers out. Now when you see Africa without the rich settlers, you see rusted railroad cars, rusted trucks, broken roads and bridges, people starving and dying from treatable illnesses.
The United States with it's greedy rich people has the better health care and better nutrition for it's poorest people than any African nation. Mexico has very few rich people and I don't see any Americans rushing to the border to get in to that country.
So, as flawed a system as we may have here at home, how many of us would want to drive out the wealthy citizens like the Africans did?
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