> It's an American homegrown problem with too much focus on capitalism. Capitalism does not preclude charity. It could be argued that it precludes state-funde

> It's an American homegrown problem with too much focus on capitalism. Capitalism does not preclude charity. It could be argued that it precludes state-funded social programs, but the US has a very large number of those already, so it follows that Capitalism (as implemented here) is not the cause of this problem. Regardless of what I or anyone else thinks about the necessity and morality of those programs, they do exist, and they are ineffective. The question is "Why are the ineffective?"