While the world's rich get richer, the world's poor starve to death.

David C. Duncombe of Salmon, Washington in a Letter to the Editors of the Seattle Post Intelligencer on June 2 wrote the following:

"Control of the world's affairs is quietly slipping into the hands of international financial institutions.  It's called globalization.  Today there are 10 million millionaires worldwide, 1,100 of whom are billionaires, some earning in 10 minutes what their workers earn in a year.  This growing disparity between the rich and poor is morally obscene.  Food ... in the Third World has jumped 60 percent in the past year."

No wonder the horrifying greed of the few has triggered this 50,000 of the world's poor who are dying of starvation every day.