You must work with the poor with both eyes and heart shut to their plight.  I did not use hyperbole in my comment.  When I began working at a food bank/SNAP center I couldn't believe that US citizens had to live as they were, on donated groceries and a pittance for nutrition.  Our poor may not live like those in Africa or Asia who starve daily, but their situation should not exist in a country with our resources, our Federal budget spent on nuclear weapons and new stealth hardware, and the fat-cat lifestyles of so many.  You once again prove my point that people with your political and social orientation lack the most basic element of empathy (a close relative of mercy.)  Don't bother to reply, you are invisible to me.