I went to the nation's capitol this summer for the first time and I was suprised by the amount of homeless people wandering about on the capitol mall. Some of these guys had old army tattoos and one was missing a leg. I assume he was a veteran of some sorts. I took a picture of him with the Washington Monument in the background. Fitting photo considering the current state of Washington. Veterans not are the point of this post though.
The point is that poverty exists in the US. Bad Poverty - people starving or freezing to death poverty. I lived on Pine Ridge reservation for part of my life and I saw masses of people living in cardboard boxes. This was in the middle of a South Dakota winter. In my opinion, in a country where a fraction of the worlds population consumes so much of the worlds resources, this should not happen.
The point is that poverty exists in the US. Bad Poverty - people starving or freezing to death poverty. I lived on Pine Ridge reservation for part of my life and I saw masses of people living in cardboard boxes. This was in the middle of a South Dakota winter. In my opinion, in a country where a fraction of the worlds population consumes so much of the worlds resources, this should not happen.