No Safety Net; The Real And Extreme Poverty Of The Third World

There are no safety nets for the majority of mankind living in third world countries. If you are sick and have no money, you have to pray that you get well because no money means no treatment. Many people die because they have no money for medical treatment, doctors or medicine. If you are a child without a home, no one will give you a home. You will live on the streets begging, picking through garbage, or doing whatever you can to eat. If you have a child and have no money for food, there will be no government assistance or any assistance. Your child will be one of the millions of malnourished children that will have his or her brain and overall development permanently impaired. No money or little money means no school, no opportunity for a good future and a way out of poverty. And even with an education, jobs in many places are few, and wages low. No one will care if you you can eat, read, write, or even live. The safety net that exists in the United States and western world is a luxury to most of the world. The poverty of the United States is not poverty at all in the third world, where millions live without homes, in shacks, in makeshift structures without running water, electricity, toilets. People in many places use holes in the ground. When it rains, the feces comes up. Despite this massive poverty, millions are not violent. Poverty itself is not responsible for the out of control violence in this world. Americans, even the poorest, do not realize how extreme poverty really can be.