Kenya in Crisis

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My point in this totally off subject thread was addressing the several people who were faulting the US for having poverty, and several posts in which multiple people stated more or less "if you look at other countries their poor are better off" (in response to a post that our poor have it better off). Too hard to quote everyone verbatum. Bottom line - the US government has programs and has aid organizations. We don't have a homogenous society like Japan where families take care of their own and it would bring shame on a family to have a homeless uncle. Each developed nation government tries to cope with their unique poverty issues. Sweden is different from the UK which is different from the USA. Its inaccurate to say a government better addresses poverty when there is not a common baseline to start from and compare to. An apple tree produces more apples than a pumpkin plant produces pumpkins, but are you going to insult the pumpkin plant and imply the pumpkin plant isn't doing his job?
Personal stories are a sampling of society. Everyone has their own stories. And no ones story is worth more than the next. Something can be garnered from, learned from, everyone's unique story.