U.S. poverty vs. industrialized nation poverty.. how does the U.S. poverty rate compare to that of other industrialized nations?

Wieespread poverty is not the disease.

It is but a symptom: government mismanagement.  America does not suffer the poverty and abuse that the Muslim world suffers because our moral values will not alloow poverty or extremism in government.  However, Obama's leanings to the left assure us disastrous poverty hunger and war.

If we lose our moral values and humanitarian commitment, then Islam could take over here with the expected genocide, terror, and poverty that comes with Islam in every form.

We do not need more misery in the world due to expanding islam and its inherent family discord and violence.

But you know there is still poverty in America, I've seen it and you have seen it. There are a lot of homeless people and some of them it is not because they choose that kind of life. There is a lot of them that are Vietnam Vets and people in other wars who just could not take all the killings that need help and the Government does not give them the help they need. I wish I had a ranch to help those people I've prayed to God for that but I guess I got to learn to have more patience. I would take in all homeless and Animals that need a place of course I would have to have some seen by a psychiatrist first cause if you have children around you have to be careful. I would put a church on the Ranch and they would live by God's words I would grow vegies and fruit so we will have something to live on and cows for milk and chickens for eggs. It would be a beautiful place.  But we all know that would be impossible it is just a dream, but I wish it would be come a reality. And all you would need is a nonprofit number from the State and you can get donations. Think about it if we had enough cows and chickens we could sell milk and eggs to the stores and even help other Countries with food and stuff by putting a piece of land away to grow fruit and vegies and we could can them for other Countries. The people who were homeless would do the work and I would be fair every day people will get different jobs to do. And I also would get my hands dirty planting or cleaning up after the animals.

Amber, it is clear that you have no clue about poverty, its causes, or its solution. 

Do you have a business?  Do you hire people, train unskilled laborers into skilled trades?  Do you give people the resolve and encouragement to lift themselves by their own bootstraps if they must?

How many people have you trained to lead others, to do what we should be doing, and they in turn train leaders?

Until you do that, you are part of the problem, not part of any feasible solution.  The problem is that weak-kneed leftists make mistakes -- severe mistakes -- and those mistakes cost others any hope of lasting remedy.

The very instant you become sentimental, you lose that essential objectivity to make a fair judgment call. 

If we left it to you, everyone would lose.