An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.