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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
No, my intention is to point out the fact that in the United States there are MILLIONS of people, who if not for handouts, would face a crisis and a disaster, just as there are millions in Africa who face a similar fate. A hungry belly is a hungry belly, regardless of the neighborhood it lives in, and if anything, the fact that hunger exists in such an opulent country as America is frightening to me.
I expect there to be food shortages in underdeveloped countries, but in a nation so extraordinarily wealthy it is scary, that some could sit with SO MUCH while their very neighbors and countrymen are so broke they have to beg for food from the government or the food bank or send their kids to school just to get a free lunch. it is fucking ridiculous.
I do believe it is MUCH worse to live with such morally bankrupt individuals around.. I would rather break bread with the poor and starving then hob nob with the selfish, apathetic bastards.
go work at a soup kitchen or a food bank and find out how great america is for americans..
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HERE and AFRICA are two different things. HERE, anyone has the opportunity to go out, get a job, and live on their own (for the most part... obviously not, in the current economy) (but that's beside the point). In Africa, people have NO CHOICE. They live in camps, waiting for the day they die - hunger, dehydration, being slaughtered by their own government or someone else's, and as far as I'm concerned, THAT is much worse than the whole capitalist idea of "needy". Our own country could use a LOT of work, sure, but obviously we're a lot better off than you'd like to think we are. You probably don't even know what it's like to be homeless, or starving. Imagine living that for your entire life.