U.N.'s poverty monitor says U.S. is 'like the kid who takes his football and goes home'

[Uncle Joe]

The U.N. monitor of extreme poverty stepped up his criticism of the Trump administration Friday, accusing the United States of failing to engage in promoting human rights and “behaving like the kid who takes his football and goes home.”

“In any country, but particularly a wealthy one, the persistence over a very long period of time of 40 million people living in poverty must be a cause for concern,” U.N. Special Rapporteur Philip Alston said as he presented his report on American poverty to a packed chamber of the world body’s Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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The U.S. healthcare system spends eight times as much to achieve the same life expectancy as in Chile and Costa Rica, he said. African American maternal mortality rates are almost double those in Thailand. According to recent data from the World Health Organization, he said, babies born in China today will live longer than babies born in the United States.

“If this council stands for anything, it is the principle of accountability,” he said. “The United States’ position, expressed by Ambassador Haley, seems to be that this council should do far more to hold certain states to account, but that it should exempt the United States and its key allies from any such accountability.”

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-un-human-rights-report-20180622-story.html

This is a good but sobering read.

[Ohiogal]

1. Very important issues

And we should be hanging our heads in shame over it.

Why do we keep electing dumb bozos who only make things worse?

[Uncle Joe]

2. Trump is just the extreme culmination, a byproduct

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from decades of "government is the problem" propaganda.

45 is the fruit of the poisonous tree springing from the branches of "every man for themself" and "what's in it for me" the fermented rot will inevitability screw yours or someone's brother, sister, mom and dad not to mention the children although the people might get a temporary buzz, even go into a stupor but that's the understated, under-reported all but ignored message by the televised media.

Too many powerful vested interests benefit from maintaining the status quo of keeping a sizable portion of the American People as a permanent underclass to divert middle class; attention away from the true causes of their increasing economic anxiety.

Keep them poor, keep them ignorant, keep them distracted, keep them obsessed with their own fragile economic survival makes dividing and conquering a piece of cake.

[Scarsdale]

4. The gop just

helped that concept along, by voting to slash SS and Medicare. Senior citizens just barely hanging on will suffer even more. Who said this is the greatest country in the world, with the best healthcare? Must have been an elected official in DC, since they get the best of everything, mostly at the expense of the taxpayers.

[bdamomma]

3. People seem to

vote against their best interest, people believed tRumps lies and BS and here we are spiraling out of control.

I have been looking into these old articles this is from Dec 2016.

The frightening common ground between a Trump adviser and white nationalism’s favorite philosopher


https://thinkprogress.org/dugin-trump-bannon-2758aeab0a10/#.bm32dp6t9

[ck4829]

5. Kick