When India started the space program they said what about the poor! When India started to liberalize they said the same thing. Etc etc.
But it is these things that are now helping everyone. Poverty has to be addressed but all else neednt stop. Will China or Pak stop to attack India because we have lots of poor people? The poor man here is most probabaly just talking about the fact that while a bomb is nice, he needs bread to. That's a different interpretation which makes more sense.
