Isn’t it wrong for people to suffer in a rich country?, John Stossel asks:
David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, took the discussion to a deeper level.“Instead of asking, ‘What should we do about people who are poor in a rich country?’ The first question is, ‘Why is this a rich country?’ …
“Five hundred years ago, there weren’t rich countries in the world. There are rich countries now because part of the world is following basically libertarian rules: private property, free markets, individualism.”