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In your view, have recent events changed the way people around the world view your country? If so, can you give any examples?

<strong> This large encampment of tent dwellers is in a park in my town right next to the county governmental office building</strong>. I think people around the world are shocked and dismayed, as I am, at the increasing number of unhoused people in this country, and the rise in extreme income disparity.<strong> People once viewed the USA as a prosperous country</strong> where poverty and wealth inequality were less dire than most countries, a place where a full time worker could afford to live comfortably.<strong> Now scenes like this are common in many cities and towns across the country.</strong> We have increasing numbers of people living in tents next to streets where Teslas and other signs of wealth are a regular sight. People who once envied us now shake their heads in disbelief and comment that this used to be a much better place.