Will poverty be eradicated when the benefits of an unencumbered free market system
filter down through greater investment and better allocation of resources?
Or will free market fundamentalism produce greater inequality, exacerbate poverty, and
sound the death knell of human rights, democracy, world peace and the environment?

Could benevolent capitalism and enlightened self-interest lead to a more equitable
distribution of the world's scarce resources?
Or is it in the nature of capitalism to encourage and entrench vicious avarice,
shareholder fundamentalism and the tyranny of the market
which is so devoid of humanity?

Was the demise of social programmes like the New Deal and the Welfare State,
with the resultant elimination of crucial safety nets for the poor,
inevitable because of unsustainability and the enormous
demands placed on national fiscuses?
Or were these funds in fact siphoned off into Corporate Welfare for the
obscenely wealthy global capitalists and transnational corporations
in the form of corporate tax cuts and privatization of state assets?