No.
I've been to Africa. I've seen people scratching out a bare subsistence and living in huts straight out of old National Geographic magazines.
And I've read about what happens to poor people in Somalia . . . and Darfour . . . and Rwanda . . . and on and on and on.
The person who wrote the quote above is either woefully ignorant or is deliberately being dishonest.
Ditto...
Even in Cape Town, homelessness is still not fun. Heck even with a "home" you still aren't that well off...first thing you see getting out of CT International going down the N2 towards the City Bowl is miles and miles of little shacks built out of scrap lumber and corrugated roofing material, sprawled across the loose sand and dunes of the Cape Flats. If they're lucky, these people have water for cooking and power, whether subsidized or stolen. If they're not lucky, they walk to a communal water supply or their shack burns down in the dozens of fires out on the Cape Flats every year.
That's what I saw in September 2000 when I was thirteen years old, whisked away from a relatively comfortable middle class existence in the US to a place where rape is the national sport and people will kill you for a couple of dollars or a pair of shoes. I learned quickly how the world works. I had to, because there was no plane ticket home.
But I digress.
All that to say...even our homeless have it good in the US. No question about it.
