Blaming the World Bank for poverty is a bit like blaming the Red Cross for starting World Wars I and II.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English (and we don't even speak that very well.)

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.