[FITZ]

Maybe instead of promoting globalism, our government should be promoting a strong America and a healthy middle class. A few elites and many poor are what you find in every unstable third world country --- we should not want the same thing for this country.

[MrB]

Nice sentiment, now, what economic programs to provide incentives to work toward your goal are you offering?

The economy (and humans) work based on incentives. Provide the right incentives and things will go the way you want. (Think about the consequences of the incentives of paying teenage girls if they have babies and aren't married.)

[Taliesan]

A few elites and many poor are what you find in every unstable third world country

None of them got that way by "capitalism".

These economies reflect the lack of legal protection for private property, which means there is no incentive to build wealth, since it can be taken from you without due process. It is a LACK of legal protection FOR CAPITALISTS which creates the polarization of wealth and poverty. In a society where property is sacred, there is no need to redistribute the wealth, since wealth is naturally attracted to the highest rate of return, which means invested in new business.

Sheeeesh. Is this a conservative board, or a Marxist one?