"POVERTY" - "DESTITUTION" - are Westerners insane? Can't tell the difference between those two adjectives. Westerners are not "poor". Let alone "destitute". ::: Not even the poorest of the poorest of Westerners can make the case for crying "poor". Yes, there are people living in unenviable conditions, but it is all comparative. Obviously if you live in broken down shack in the middle of an urban city of several millions, and somewhere up a few blocks away someone else is living in a cottage with a fence around it and a car parked in the garage, yup looks like you might be "poor". ::: Not my definition of poverty. ::: My definition of poverty is the family that lives under a tent with ten members of their family all squeezed into an impossible living space, no clean water, no place to go have a shit except in a hole in the ground you dig yourself, no shoes, not even one meal a day, no bed, nothing but the cold hard ground, sub freezing temperatures at night, ravaged by disease and illness and death around you, flies all over your stinking body, lucky if you even a piece cardboard over your head, dirty polluted water running under your naked feet, no mother, no father, no relatives, no nothing, not even hope... I want to be sick and vomit when anybody dares throw the words poverty and destitution around like it was manna from heaven. ::: I would say, "Go to Hell". Instead, I'll just say: Go to Haiti! Not to be confused with Hell's Kitchen, the Bronx. ::: Be my guest. Make my day. But you'll never hear me cry "poor".