True it is hard to compare cities, let alone nations. But the truth is apparent. The income gap between rich and poor in the US has grown out of balance, and to a point of being unsustainable. We can just look how the elderly are treated in Japan compared with treatment in the US and you will know where a nation’s heart lies. Must also remember who suffered from the atomic bomb and who dropped it. Not saying Japan, like many other nations, are not guilt free from conducting atrocities on civilians either.

With regards to welfare, we are a nation of racists that are obsessed with material wealth. As our country ages, we still battle the dark foundation of slavery but in modern form for decent treatment and wages in the workplace.

I blame the system that has put people down, and propped up corporations instead. But I blame my fellow citizens that are blind. We rather get fat and stand in line for material possessions or recreational escape than stand up and fight for what is right. We live in a plutocracy with an illusion of freedom. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.