"Our Government is Killing Us"

I stumbled across this video and was struck by the images of extreme poverty.
Nigeria is a prosperous nation, but there is a vast discrepancy between the haves and have-nots.
I don't live there and am not entirely aware of the political situation. However, the narrator of this video does live there, and the words and images he shares are disturbing.
I am a U.S. citizen. I come from a middle class family and would myself be considered part of the working class. My feeling on our current economic situation is that I have never earned such a high dollar per hour amount, but it doesn't go anywhere near as far as the $10 per hour that I was earning 15 years ago.
I also wonder if I'll ever be able to retire at the rate things are going.
The working class in the United States is pretty well fucked. We can't afford anything. The working poor have it even worse than people like me, who live from paycheck to paycheck. I'm not sure how they can even afford housing.
If something doesn't change, could scenes like we see in this video become more commonplace in the U.S.?
Something's got to give. It isn't right to have one percent of the population getting all the benefits while everyone else gets the shaft.

~DJ Wanda~

P.S. We really aren't turning this into a political blog. I was struck by Bloomy's editorial the other day, and then this video above inspired me to speak my peace.