Poverty is a criminal offense in America.

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People outside America are by comparison much more sane about this topic on average.

I wonder if you've actually been outside of America. There is more to the world than Europe and the United States. In past conversations about this you've always screamed and ranted that it's unfair to compare the poor in America to the poor in the third world and then said something crazy about Somalia or some country. This is despite the fact that the third world is the majority of the world, not some crazy place that is an unfair comparison.

Here is a hint: There are almost no poor people in America by world standards. Not even close. If you spent a year in even relatively well off countries in Latin America (Where I live almost half the year) then I think it would benefit your world perspective and you'd realize how pampered and spoiled you are.

The homeless are entirely a different issue and I think it's dishonest to mix the two issues. Most are drug abusers and/or mentally disabled. Society has an obligation to take care of them if they can and aside from our remarkable lack of mental health services we do a fairly good job at it. Have you ever been to a soup kitchen? You don't see starving people there and almost always there is left over food. In fact I've seen many overweight homeless people and those in poverty are more likely to be overweight than any other economic class. The portrait that paint of both the homeless and the poor in America just doesn't jive with reality and maybe you should take a step back and think if you've fallen victim to a propaganda industry rather than what is actually happening.