This morning I heard a thought-provoking review of the new movie, Welcome.

We dont talk about it but the truth is that there is a war going on. A war against the poor.

On one side you have us, people with something. On the other side, you have the poor, people with nothing except the drive to fight for something.

In the USA, the poor are Latin's from Mexico and Central America. In Europe, the poor are Africans largely from Morocco. Almost every country has an ethnic minority living in poverty, doing the crappy jobs, and being vilified by the populace.

Walls, laws, dogs, police, brutality, propaganda. It's not a shooting war yet but it is a war which is made all the worse because we dont acknowledge it. We tell ourselves we are just following the law.

But are the laws just? Should I get an all-you-can-eat meal at Olive Garden while the people that built the restaurant and work in the restaurant illegally are told to go hungry? While their family back home is told to starve?

Maybe it seems like a stretch now but the naked truth is going to get more and more obvious. At some point we will have a shooting war. There are too many peopel competing for the save basic resources: food and water and comfort.

All the while, we in the US piddle around about abortion. Abortion, abortion, its so terrible!! Clearly what America needs is more poor children with bad or no parents! Give me a break. This is not an easy question. This is a tough decision between two evils.

We live in a tiny bubble of prosperity surrounded by a sea of poverty and despair. A few hundred million people in Western prosperity surrounded by a sea of billions of the unwashed, unfed, uneducated. If you care so much about the un-born, please adopt someone who is born, one of the millions of orphans living in poverty right now. How much of your money, of your comfort, are you ready to give to the un-born?

Some argue that we need more babies to maintain our standard of living but what they mean is that we need more tax-paying babies with good jobs. The sad irony is that technology allows us to do more with less. We may need more tax payers but we have fewer jobs and the jobs we have require more and more technical education. The un-born, unwanted are not going to help this problem; they are going to add to the problem.

There will always be a need for some manual, unskilled workers but we need fewer every year and the standard of living they can earn shrinks every year. Work hard, for peanuts - something that only sounds appealing to most ambitious of the very poor. The very people we are trying to keep out.

I hate to be an annoying moralist here but the sad truth is that we, you and I, have a hand in this. Just like global warming, you can think that this is someone else's problem but our comfort comes at a cost to other human beings. People we either ignore or think of as less than human. It is not a new pattern but it has never been such a global one.