Quote Originally Posted by The Man View Post
Certainly, if we continue to be as generous towards the Third World as we currently are, the number of people starving (it's currently 30,000 per day, and growing) will only continue to increase.
There is the problem of foreign aid. If America did dole out money for the poor lot of us, I've never seen a single cent. Yes, it never reaches the people who need it the most.

Quote Originally Posted by The Man View Post
However, the people living in the Third World are not the ones using all the resources. The USA contains 4% of the world's population, and consumes 35% of the world's resources, while the rest of the world, containing 96% of the world's population, consumes 65% of the world's resources. That means that, per capita, Americans use over twelve times as much resources as the rest of the world, averaged out. When you compare Americans to the poorest thirty percent of the world, it's even larger - I think it's a hundred times per capita or something.
Actually poverty because of all these hoarding of resources isn't the solely the fault of the people of America. They have money, they spend it, eat a lot and avail of different luxuries.
They're first-world, they earned their state after years of history anyway. We just have to catch up.