"The U.S. isn't nearly as badly off as a lot of places, but a lot of people here are much worse off than they should be."


This is a comment I can agree whole-heartedly with. The poverty that I saw in Mexico was painful to see, but the poverty I saw in Native American reservations was heart-rending, although not quite as bad. As an American, I felt , in some fashion, responsible for what the people living on the reservation had to deal with. That bothered me, that the US government had made treaties, then repeatedly broke them and driven those people to marginally livable areas.