"Poverty vs. Lawlessness"

I am so, so sick of America blaming all its problems on "poverty".  America has not ever seen REAL poverty....there are places in this world (and I have seen them) where an entire family lives in a cardboard box (from a refrigerator or stove of a rich person) and GLAD to have it.  They beg for a bit of bread or rice to survive.

The news media in USA is so messed up.  It tries to make the public feel "sorry" for the underprivileged in this county.  I JUST read about an arrest of a youth gang in our small town.  These youths were (about 15 of them in all) walking and talking LOUDLY at 3:00 a.m. on a Sunday in July.  These youths were not begging for food or impoverished in any REAL sense of the word.  They were just bored (and probably "high" on drugs or alcohol, which gave them the extra "bravado").  A couple came out to ask them to please be quiet (after all, most people do have to wake up to WORK on Monday mornings).  That did it.....the gang of 15 youths beat the couple senseless to the point where the wife's eye was swollen shut from being punched.  The couple was taken to hospital.

YES, the police arrested them, but keep in mind most of the 15 were juveniles and will probably be released early due to their age.  The couple??  They have no "Human Rights"....where are THEIR Human Rights???

Why does USA continue to portray hoodlums as "underprivileged"?  And WHY were these 15 out on the streets at 3:00 in the morning??  Looking for food?  Looking for work? Where were their parents?

People need to stop sugar-coating lawlessness.  They need to make people accountable for lawlessness and stop playing the "poverty card".  Really fed up with what I see.

This is lawlessness, not poverty!