Using the “suffering” term was a bit extreme.
When I think of “suffering” people, I’m thinking countries like:
Zimbabwe
Myanmar
Sudan
Not the USA.
Are there poor here? Yes. But not on the order of magnitude seen elsewhere in the world.
Over the weekend I went with some folks in our church to serve at a homeless ministry outreach.
I saw plenty of people that were homeless - but I didn’t see any starving people. They were hungry for that day’s meal, and a good sized percentage were overweight.
Just my .02