The existence of poverty elsewhere doesn't mean we shouldn't fight it in America though.
True. Including people who own iPads seems to be kinda stretching the definition of "poverty," though. There are a lot of Americans who are way below the "drive my mom's car out to Times Square on the weekend to do a hipster protest wearing a Guy Fawkes replica mask and then tweet about it" level.
Also, just to sway this fully into NatDT territory:
Megacorporations do indeed have too much sway over the government. The way to fix this is not for the politicians who are in the pockets of the megacorporations to make more regulations.
A few weeks ago, one prominent politician proposed eliminating all corporate income tax, as well as all corporate tax credits/bailouts/etc. Raising corporate income tax doesn't punish the big corporations. GE made $14 billion in taxable income last year, and paid no taxes, actually getting back about $3 billion from the government. After all the political favors are said and done, most megacorporations pay little, nothing, or less than nothing in corporate income tax (In completely unrelated news, the CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, is one of Obama's top economic advisors). It's the small and medium sized businesses (which create 70% of the jobs in the U.S.), who can't afford their own teams of lobbyists, who have to pay the full tax. If all corporate income tax and all corporate welfare could be eliminated totally and simultaneously, estimates show that it would at least pay for itself (i.e., we currently pay out at least as much to corporations as we take in from them), and the boost in job creation from small and medium businesses having more cash on hand would increase revenue from income and payroll taxes over time. It would also be a way to punish megacorporations without doing it in an unfair or vindictive way.
One would be hard pressed to find a single protester out there who would ever consider supporting
the politician who proposed that. Some of them are even still hanging on to their support of
the one who has received more money from Wall Street than any U.S. politician in the last 20 years.