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Brazilian Leader Pleads Case for Poor
February 11, 2003
""The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling 'less than' another, comparisons only fan the fires."
�"Dorothy Corkville Briggs
BRAZILIAN LEADER PLEADS
CASE FOR POOR
To applause and cheers, Brazil's new President appeared yesterday before the
elite economic conference he once scorned, the World Economic Forum being held
in Davos, Switzerland, and called for a massive drive to defeat poverty and
hunger across the globe. Speaking to this annual gathering of corporate and
political leaders (as reported by The New York Times), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
declared, "I would like to invite all of you that are here to look at the
world with other eyes....We need a new world economic order that distributes
wealth more fairly, so that impoverished countries have a chance of becoming
less impoverished, so that African babies have the same right to eat as a
blond, blue-eyed baby born in Scandanavia ....Countries are spending billions
and billions of dollars in an arms race and spending money on things that are
not priorities. We look at the Third World countries, and millions and millions
of women and children die because they don't manage to eat the calories they
need."
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