Pop quiz, readers. Which NGO is campaigning on the following platform?
“The need to resolve the structural causes of poverty cannot be delayed…
“Welfare projects, which meet certain urgent needs, should be considered merely temporary responses…
“As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems. Inequality is the root of social ills.”
Answer after the jump…Trick question! It was the Pope. I’ll say that again. The Pope. This is going to get interesting politically.
