Poverty is a moral challenge because everyone knows that the only way out of it, is good old fashioned free-trade capitalism. Those words are verboten, so Samuelson uses, "pro-growth policies and pro-growth values" and then after beating around the bush for a bunch more paragraphs says:"The hard question (which the panel [21-member Commission on Growth and Development] ducks) is why all societies haven't adopted them. One reason is politics; some regimes are more interested in preserving their power and privileges than in promoting growth."
Come on Bob, spit in out. What is that political system that some regimes are so loath to give up. Lawrence Harrison of Tufts University says traditional values, social systems or religious views are hostile to risk-taking, wealth accumulation and economic growth. Implying that they're comfortable with socialism and deprivation.
What hogwash. I believe that Czech President Vaclav Klaus who's been there and done that, would beg to differ.
Via The Earth Times Klaus said he opposed the "climate alarmism" perpetuated by environmentalism trying to impose their ideals, comparing it to the decades of communist rule he experienced growing up in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.
"Like their (communist) predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality," he said.
"In the past, it was in the name of the Marxists or of the proletariat - this time, in the name of the planet," he added.
He's a charming man and would make mince meat out of Gore or any of the other apologists for keeping millions of people in poverty in their misguided attempt to control, not only the earth, but the cosmos as well.
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