because wealth is not split up the same way as in the usa. Every single world resource is capitalized on right away by the people who think they own the world. If you want to know what all this shit in the middle east is really about, strategically, Iran and oil. why does america hate Chavez?? he will not bend to their will and let them rape the land and put his people in dispairity. I had to laugh when I was watching a commercial in Maine, it was underpriveledged families thanking CITGO for donating free oil to heat their homes that winter, lol guess who owns citgo? I dont think any american oil company would do that.