“Our “poor” are rediculously “rich” by most of the world’s standards...”
Depends. If you’re poor, no job and living on the street, you’re poor. It’s a very tough life, regardless of whether you’re in the USA or Cambodia.
I still take the US any day. This isn’t about the poor for BO. He is just targeting his base: Unions who are job killers and the ‘poor’ who need a reason to stay that way.
Of course, being homeless, without money or food is poor. But such as these are a relatively tiny portion of the U.S. What we see here in the U.S. in classifying as poor are people with decent cars, government-subsidized housing, food (many "poor" people are pretty portly if not obese) and generally decent surroundings - what most truly poor people in the world would kill for.
The classification as poor is no longer an issue of measuring resources, but a tool to use in the game of class envy. Politicians, particularly Democrats, know this, and use it with adept skill to demonize anyone who happens to have more than another person.