Our nation is perhaps the most powerful and sovereign nation in this dispensation of the world. We are still the leader of the free world, in a time when there are many countries with greater or equal economic might, more people and rivaling military might.

There are more than 250 million people of every race, creed and national origin in the US. By contrast to the world the US has the freest society. Senator and Presidential Candidate Barrack Obama said, "That in no other place in the world would his story be possible". So, how is it that in a nation of such wealth is there so much discontentment, poverty, sickness and homelessness.

Today I saw the most disturbing thing I've seen in a while. While sitting in an open pavilion in downtown St. Louis, after eating a fast food dinner, I saw what can best be described as a homeless person. He sat and watched a young woman and myself enjoy our burgers and fries and once she and I were both finished wondered to a trash bin closer to me and rampaged for food. Now, my first thought was to reach in my pocket and give the man five dollars. As I sat there pondering if I should help this less fortunate person he continued to search the trash bin. To my surprise he found a barely eaten box of fries and I believe a burger. It was a conflicting moment for me. I wanted to help; I thought perhaps he must do this all the time and was simply playing on my sympathy. Then I thought, well he has found his meal for the day, how bad is that. The man seemed content with his find and payed me little mine. I decided to save my generosity for another time.

How is it that the most powerful nation on earth can not feed its people? Sure, many will say that every civilization and every country have its poor, homeless and hungry. And there will always be those who have and the have not's. But, isn't that unexceptable? Are we not better than this?

There is a crisis in the world today with food. Some people in this country are hoarding food, before the prices rise too high and choice staples become too scares.

Natural disasters are the cause of much of the food shortages, perhaps global warming is damaging the world at a greater pace than we know, adding to the calamitous natural disasters world wide. On Monday May 5, 2008 22,000 people died when a cyclone struck in YANGON Myranmar, and recent reports of 100000 dead.

We've touted our democracy as the model society for all of civilization past,

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