[Gay State Conservative]

Particularly because I'm fairly widely traveled both in the US and foreign countries (First World *and* Third World) there's so,so much I could say about poverty...including poverty here in the US.But I'll just say this...in East Africa I've seen little black kids with orange/red hair,big swollen bellies and little stick legs...three of the classic signs of desperate,long term,malnutrition.OTOH,we in the US have the *fattest* "poor" people on the face of the earth.

To this nation's "poor" I say (paraphrasing Sgt Barnes's great line in Full Metal Jacket) "Poverty? What do y'all know about poverty?"

[Right Wing Assault]

But I'll just say this...in East Africa I've seen little black kids with orange/red hair,big swollen bellies and little stick legs...three of the classic signs of desperate,long term,malnutrition.OTOH,we in the US have the *fattest* "poor" people on the face of the earth.

You know how schools have "foreign exchange" students? I propose "foreign exchange poor people." We bring some of those malnourished kids and families over for a year and we send them some of our fat poor for a year. Wouldn't that be interesting?