Have you lived in the states? I've lived in the USA and UK... Much much higher quality of live in USA than in UK. Don't feel sorry for americans, they are richer, with bigger homes, more of basically everything, and much higher quality of life.
@Shelddd
I've been in the US since Ronald Reagan was president. I'm sitting here in my armchair right now, considering the possibility that you may well have spent your time in the US in some beige suburb a long way from the lives and too early, often violent, deaths of millions of Americans.
I've lived through trickle down economics and I've seen the so-called benefits. I've seen the big city next door to me collapse under the combined weight of lack of funding for public housing and the 'war on black families drugs'. I've seen the rich get considerably richer and the poor stay exactly the same, only with fewer supermarkets serving them in their neighbourhoods.
My son worked for a while in a medical clinic serving mainly the elderly poor on Medicaid. He saw people with very limited education who migrated from the deep south in their youth, who worked manual jobs all their lives, who have no pensions, who depend on paltry social security payments and food stamps, whose struggling bodies told a story of poor nutrition, lack of health care when they were younger, lack of dental care, lack of attention to mental health, stress and anxiety, and lack of time off jobs to see doctors when they were ill - people suffering from the cumulative effects of longstanding dire poverty, high blood pressure, diabetes, mental illnesses, asthma, heart disease, and problems associated with life in rodent infested, roach infested housing, including bed bugs. The medical office had to call Terminix frequently.
I live 10-15 minutes on foot from the impoverished neighbourhood of the city where those poor people live, and I might as well live on another planet. There is open air prostitution, drug dealing, drive by shootings, car-jackings. The area houses more registered sex offenders than any other neighbourhoods in the city. The schools suck. There's gang graffiti everywhere, liquor stores that sell a few overpriced groceries as well as alcohol instead of supermarkets. There are swathes of empty lots where there were once solid old brick apartment buildings. There are miles and miles of neighbourhoods like this in the city. There are hundreds of thousands of little boys playing on the sidewalks today who are guaranteed to spend a portion of their lives behind bars.
I feel very sorry for Americans, because there will be a reckoning for the crushing of the poor.