Poverty in the USA is a scandal

[Minimalist]

Australia isn't much better Trist

Yes, that we HAVE homeless people at all is a disgrace.

However, we DO have; universal health care, a far higher minimum wage,a long tradition of welfare housing AND a far more generous system of welfare payments and pensions. Plus Family Allowance payments and child care subsidies. PLUS mandatory national superannuation.

Not much better my arse.

See what happens when you don't waste $1 trillion a year on a military whose primary threat appears to be guys with dynamite in their underwear.