There is no shortage of people living in squalor in America because the adults in the household would rather spend their government checks on drugs and booze than on food and education. But giving them more money isn’t going to solve anything other than, perhaps, getting them to switch to a higher class of booze and drugs.
Must be true. I know from the left stream media that the homeless all disappeared when Obama was inaugurated. I haven’t seen a story about them in five years.
Go visit a third-world country, or talk to somebody who has lived in one. America HAS no poor by world standards.
When I lived in a remote area of Yemen, I learned what poor was.
I thought my Dad’s family grew up poor, without running water or electricity.
In Yemen I met workers in their 40’s who never owned a pair of store bought shoes. They made their own sandals out of the sidewalls of old tires. I saw homes made of stacked rocks, with dirt floors. Some never had seen indoor plumbing before we set up a construction camp. In a village of ~1,000 people there were 3 buildings with electricity, the store owner that bought the little generator, the “government” building and the school. That generator also run the one pump for the village.
I’ve tried to explain to my kids what poor actually is. There is just no real way to convey that information that they can relate to.