It would have been true for you, perhaps.
But the vast majority of Americans have next to no savings.
Do we let them starve in the streets?
(It was their reckless spending that earned the rest of us a lifetime of money to save.)
But that said, I still agree with you.
Americans don't even let Indonesians starve in the streets, what makes you think we'd let Americans starve in the streets if not for the Velvet Fist of the Almighty State?