Government-engineered inequality.

Editor,

In response to your pooh-poohing "government-engineered equality" in the form of universal health care, fair trade, and other government interventions in the so-called "free" market to maximize employment:

(1) Neoliberal "structural reforms," required by the IMF and the World Bank in order for developing economies to access credit, engineer inequality by distributing wealth from poor and working people to the wealthy transnational capitalist elite.

(2) Billions in subsidies to agribusiness corporations, oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, telecommunications companies, and other giant corporations engineer inequality by distorting the "free" market to distribute wealth from poor and working people to the wealthy transnational capitalist elite.

(3) Monetarist federal reserve policies geared to fight inflation, as opposed to Keynesian federal reserve policies geared to maximize employment, engineer inequality by hedging international capitalists' bets with unemployment -- so-called "flexibility" -- among workers, distributing financial insecurity to the poor and working classes and distributing wealth into the hands of the wealthy transnational capitalist elite.