Cities have turned into waste lands and children run barefoot through streets littered with needles and shell casings. Young people in inner cities are lucky to make it to twenty one. If drugs do not **** them, then a bullet or a corrupt system will find them in the morgue or prison. While in other worlds in a nation of supposed plenty, wealthy people sit on thrones of gold and count the pawns over which they have dominion. Giving no thought to the lives lost by corruption and inaction, they simply turn a blind eye to the cost in humanity as they look for new ways to enrich themselves.  All the while, a nation puts on a brave face to entice the world to look kindly on us, while we can't even end the misery of the poorest among us.