Trump turning US into 'world champion of extreme inequality', UN envoy warns
Source: The Guardian
The United Nations monitor on poverty and human rights has issued a devastating report on the condition of America, accusing Donald Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress of attempting to turn the country into the “world champion of extreme inequality”.
Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has completed a two-week official tour of the US by releasing an excoriating attack on the direction of the nation. Not only does he warn that the tax bill currently being rushed through Congress will hugely increase already large disparities between rich and poor, he accuses Trump and his party of consciously distorting the shape of American society in a “bid to become the most unequal society in the world”.
“American exceptionalism was a constant theme in my conversations,” he writes. “But instead of realizing its founders’ admirable commitments, today’s United States has proved itself to be exceptional in far more problematic ways that are shockingly at odds with its immense wealth and its founding commitment to human rights. As a result, contrasts between private wealth and public squalor abound.”
In his most stark message, Alston warns that the Republicans’ declared intent to slash crucial welfare programs next year in order to pay for some of the $1.5tn tax cuts could cost American lives. “The consequences for an already overstretched and inadequate system of social protection are likely to be fatal for many programs, and possibly also for those who rely upon them,” he writes.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/15/america-un-extreme-poverty-trump-republicans
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Just WAKE THE FUCK UP! 
This cannot continue where are the fucking REPUBS???????? I just don't get it!
i know a certain bunch are involved with Russia BUT are the rest of these Repubs congressman so sleepy they can't see what the truth is? THE BIGGEST HEIST OF A LIFETIME IS BEING PULLED OFF HERE RIGHT BEFORE THERE EYES!!! 
Not a bank heist but THE WHOLE GOD DAM COUNTRY BEING STOLEN!!
vs poor will be the end of a civilized society, but then again the poor will react and take back what is theirs through unrest. I am not promoting violence, but we will come back with vengeance. Damn these repigs/corporations and the rest. 
