 r r a hettinga rah shipwright com writes r at NUMBER NUMBER pm NUMBER on NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER mr fork wrote free trade and free markets have proven their ability to lift whole societies out of poverty i m not a socio political history buff does anybody have some clear examples r you re probably living in one or you wouldn t be able to post r here cool i wasn t aware that the us had lifted it s population out of poverty when did this happen i wonder where the media gets the idea that the wealth gap is widening and deepening gary lawrence murphy garym URL teledynamics communications blog URL biz URL computers are useless they can only give you answers picasso 