The kind of poverty you see in the United States where people live in trailer parks or very basic homes that are barely more than barracks or sheds, and entire settlements look that way? You don't really get that in Northern and Western Europe.
When you see that kind of thing on television, it makes America look like a poor country.
We give foreign aid to countries who could afford to help themselves, but are too corrupt to do it.
Perhaps we should give some foreign aid to America.