Letters: Global inequality

So President Obama "vows to cut the inequality gap" (Obama attacks Washington gridlock and vows to cut inequality gap, 24 July). That is commendable and certainly necessary, especially in the US where whole swaths of society lack even healthcare cover. But what about the worldwide equality gap? We in the west produce almost none of the basic everyday goods which fill our homes and our cupboards and even many of our groceries and vegetable produce are (air-) freighted in from the other side of the planet.