text: My family works in a Catholic food bank about 6 times a year and we make lunches for the homeless about 3 times a year.
  
  I've been deployed to a lot of places in the world and have spent a lot of time in very austere conditions with the Marines, including several spots in Africa.  I've made the wells, built on to hospitals, done nation building, seen very the very poor. 
  
  Your adding drama ("shocking") to it doesn't add any light or salt whatsoever.   
  
  Perpetual overblown criis.  Drama. Hyperbole. 
  
  About 5 billion people in the world live on less than 2 dollars a day, about 7 or 8 billion live on less than the average Mexican makes a day.
  
  The US poor are by comparison filthy rich.