Bernice:

> perhaps USA, UK, AUS should just invade the countries and feed the poor.....mainly the USA because their spend on "WAR" is phenomenal

On the surface it seems reasonable. Specially when the cost of the food is a lot less than what is spent on military budgets. However, giving away free food does not eliminate the underlying causes of poverty. It is like putting a bandaid on a wound without first cleaning and disinfecting the wound.

We can give away free food, but that does not mean that we are getting rid of dictatorship, fascism, corruption, imperialism, predatory capitalism, religious fanaticism, exploitation, abuse, etc.

The poor of the world do not need charity. What they is social justice and the fair and equal distribution of wealth. That is the one thing that capitalism can never offer to them. Taking from the rich and redistributing equally among the poor is the stuff that revolutions are made of, and nobody in our capitalist world wants that.

So we look at poverty from far away. We know it is there, but we walk around pretending that it is not there, or hoping that somebody will come up with a good idea. We know what the medicine is, but it pains us to accept it.