OK...let's take Hewlett Packard...or General Motors...do you really think they sit around hoping to have more poor people? They don't benefit as far as I can see from having poor people. They benefit from having educated working class people I would say..but desparately poor..why?????? THis does not make sense...how do they benefit from people in jail and mentally ill on the streets and TB epidemics waiting to happen? I don't think they do. They don't hire in the poorest sections of a state do they? Especially where poverty is confluenced with crime..no one wants to set up there...

I think we have to look more to biology...and count heads...oh dear..now she is going to say babies cause poverty..well....they prolong it if nothing else...mg