I’ve lived and worked in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand (Thailand? ;)... I’ve seen poverty.
There, the folks don’t want a handout, they want a chance. Most all are hard working and industrious, they just don’t have the opportunity. I was amazed at some of the ways they’d come up with, just to put a little food on the table, which they’d gladly share.
We don’t have poor in this country, not by any rational definition.
No, I don’t feel sorry for the ‘poor’ in this country, guess I’m just mean spirited.
Didn’t you hear, the poor in America are because of the lazy and rich instead, at least according to familyop. The sob stories here in this thread is making Karl Marx blush.