There is a certain analytical poverty in the way we discuss some of these issues. The model we keep hearing about focuses on the rich and the poor. There are rich people and there are certainly many poor people. However, the vast majority of people are in between and the rhetoric about rich and poor leaves that out of account. When an economy is growing fast there is a tendency for gaps to widen somewhat and that should be corrected as much as possible. I am very glad there is a Government commitment to get rid of absolute or consistent poverty. However, given a choice, it would be preferable for people to be absolutely better off, even though relatively poorer, than to be relatively better off and absolutely less well off. Sometimes people talk as if that is not really the case. I know Fr. Healy very well and while people like him are very well intentioned, some of the economics are very faulty. There is no point in implementing old-fashioned socialist economics, which only have the effect of reducing the resources available for everything, including caring.