The lady is not worried about the poor being in danger not having enough to eat but of the poor being in danger of being killed in their neighborhood because of the violence that occurs there daily.
But why dear lady do the poor shoot each other on your street corner?
Let me enlighten you.
The poor in America do not have to scratch out a living because in America the poor have a Safety Net. Only in America is obesity a health risk associated with the poor.
The social safety net in America has made possible for single mothers to have children with out support of the father of those children. Having more children has become a preferred method of increasing family income. Fatherless boys however often grow up rather wild. Without a father in the house to tame their wild inclinations boys tend to grow up with anti-social tendencies. The novel The Lord of the Flies illustrates the pattern of behavior I am describing.
Dear lady the poor are killing each other because the social safety net has destroyed the social fabric of the family. Boys are growing up with out fathers because the social safety net has made fathers financially unnecessary. Fathers no longer feel any responsibility to support their offspring. The honor of being a father has become the millstone that drags a young man down. Why get married and be responsible when the government will feed, cloth and house the little rug rats.
The social safety net that the dear lady want to ever expand is killing the poor and destroying society.
The reason the poor are shooting each other is because they have no jobs and therefore have nothing better to do. They dont have jobs because they dont need a job because the government provides them everything they need to survive.
Pare down the safety net and force the poor to provide for themselves and the violence to abate. When you work 10 or 12 hours a day to provide for you and your children you are too tried to fight and you are too tired to put up with any crap from your wild child so you stomp on him when he needs reigned in.
The social safety net is the problem not the solution.
Well, as long as she's asking...How about being a Christian in one of obama's muslim countries?