Abstract
I am quite surprised that the heart of Mr. Myerss response is that we need to slow down and ponder the circumstances of the poor more carefully. I find this stance troubling. We have allowed the global poor to twist in the wind for too long. To make matters worse, we often tell them that they need to wait even longer while wise, caring Westerners deliberate how best to fix them. I am simply not reconciled to this notion. The existences of todays poor are fragile indeedso much so that they may not live to see the better day we are slowing down to create for them.