Third World Poverty, American Poverty, The Failed Working Class

                                  The United States has become an increasingly hard place to live for working class and struggling middle class people.  Rich people live like kings. The safety net for those living in poverty is far beyond anything that can be imagined for those living in third world poverty. Working and struggling middle class people have no safety nets, and no protections that wealth brings. It is always one step away, one major sickness or injury away from financial ruin and losing everything. Obama's healthcare plan accommodated low income people, but made insurance not affordable for millions of working and struggling middle class people.
                                  In the third world, if you live in a shack and you lose it to bad weather, or some one with money pushes you off your land, you have no legal recourse. If you live on the streets, as millions do, without even a dirt floor shack to sleep in, then that is your fate. Millions live without any housing. If they get sick, or if they suffer a chronic disease, or from a disease like cancer, liver disease, kidney disease, without money there is no one that will treat them. There are government hospitals in some places, and private religious or charitable hospitals in others. But these are far inadequate to meet the huge need for medical and dental services that hundreds of millions desperately require. Millions die because there is no where to go, or because the few places that are available are so overwhelmed that millions never receive adequate treatment.
                               In the third world, there are no food assistance programs for most. If people go hungry, become malnourished, no safety net exists to address their needs. They have no protections regarding food, medical care, dental care, education, housing, obtaining medicine.
                                In the United States, the culture has become increasingly violent and selfish. Degenerative music goes on endlessly about sex and violence; overpaid talent-less people announcing to the world their desires that they cannot control. The poverty of the states is not the poverty of the third world. The debilitating poverty of the third world is such that poor children often receive no school, no proper food or water, no shelter or inadequate shelter, no medical care, no hope for the future. If the poor of the third world saw the homes and lives of the poor of the first world, they would consider them rich. There are places in this world where people live in the most dire, desperate poverty, and yet there is not the violence that exists in far wealthier places. Addressing poverty is difficult. But it has to start by moving beyond the premise that it is just about giving and nothing more. And violence, no matter what excuses are made for it, keeps people downtrodden. It is not the liberating force that some self righteous fools imagine.