"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich." - Anon. I first began to encounter this when I as an idealistic t

"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich." - Anon. I first began to encounter this when I as an idealistic teenager looked into why poverty/hunger still existed when we had enough food/money to wipe it out. Aid to low income countries often wouldn't get to the intended recipient. Their leaders would live like kings while kids would die from malnutrition. It just baffled me (still does) how someone could be so selfish. Then I realized we in the US have it just around the corner. I knew someone who worked at a "remedial" high school where the kids struggled with hunger, homelessness, and addiction. All the schools in the area would shuffle any kid in danger of flunking to make sure their numbers looked good. They lived in neighborhoods I as a middle-class person would never venture into. We just do a good job sweeping massive poverty in the US under the rug. This was a middle of the road state - then you look at states such as Mississippi and you wonder how we can live with ourselves.