We've been fighting poverty all wrong

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13. We have so many problems in this country that we could solve if we wanted to.

Hunger, education, healthcare, infant mortality, gun violence, safety, less crime, drug interdiction, money in politics, the list goes on. We have the technology, we have the money, we just don't have the want to.

I have seen so many polls where the vast majority of Americans want the same thing. Democrats , republicans, independents, it's amazing that we all want the same things. But we don't get them because ....

Why?

I'm afraid we're all being lit around by the nose! Lol what's important?? I'm afraid that our elected officials, even the ones we like to vote for, are not giving us what we want and need. How do we make them more responsive to us?

And that my friends is the question of the century!