See wat you may of the World

So I have finally got home from my study abroad trip, and after being up for 24 hours for my long flights, i am finally starting to get back into the swing of things. This blog though is not about my trip rather it is about a though i have been thinking of. So at my dinner table, in the car, and just at random times my family loves to talk to one another. About anything. The one thing I have recently talked about an which has made me a little aggravated is over the distance in wealth in the US. I am not rich, and i never will be. I don't expect to ever in my life. But for the life of me i do not understand why people with wealth do not help those without. I see people sitting upon billions of dollars in wealth and they do nothing to help their fellow man. The homeless need shelter, with 9% unemployment people need food and clothes, and adolescents in foster care need someone to look up to. I know everyone doesn't have the money to help support these. But to see all this money not being used to building facilites which may only cost in the millions and help thousands of individuals is beyond my vary being of thought. I am not trying to sound like a winy little kid about our system. I just don't see how our government can spend on pig-barrel projects and the rich on million dollar house expansions when their fellow man our losing faith in life itself. What can one do when all you have is the power of words and volunteer but have no power to change the world?