Yes, America has its priorities extremely screwed up. I was walking in downtown Chicago last week. Of course there are many homeless, many beggars. There was one man I saw, on Michigan Avenue, who was passed out (who knows, may have been dead already). He had very chalky skin, and disfiguring leg edema (swelling) and on one side, for the world to see, had an open, infected, seeping leg ulcer, the size of a large grapefruit.
America's government busybodies would leave a dying (or already dead) body on a busy street, but are sure to censure parents whose kid is walking a dog.
and what if anything did you do? Keep on walking perhaps?