Eagle_Eye (12-11-2017)
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No other developed nation on the planet would tolerate such shocking disparity between extraordinary wealth, and crushing poverty.
full article http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-p...-racism-743601Alabama Has The Worst Poverty In The Developed World, U.N. Official Reports
A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world.
"I think it's very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I'd have to say that I haven't seen this," Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.
The tour through Alabama's rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States. So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
Despite these concerns, the Republican Party, which controls all three branches of the federal government, is on course to pass a tax bill before the end of the year that will increase the federal deficit by $1 trillion in 10 years--costs that the GOP says will be offset by reducing an already-weakened social safety net.
For Alston, these political decisions are at the root of systemic poverty in the U.S.
“The idea of human rights is that people have basic dignity and that it’s the role of the government — yes, the government! — to ensure that no one falls below the decent level,” he said. “Civilized society doesn’t say for people to go and make it on your own and if you can’t, bad luck.”
“Politicians who say, ‘there’s nothing I can do about that’ are simply wrong,” Alston told WKMS 91.3.
Eagle_Eye (12-11-2017)
evince (12-10-2017), Phantasmal (12-10-2017), signalmankenneth (12-10-2017), ThatOwlWoman (12-10-2017)
Republicans control 9 out of 10 poorest states, and 97 out of 100 poorest counties in the US.
... fucking amazing
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Eagle_Eye (12-11-2017)
Althea (12-10-2017), katzgar (12-10-2017), signalmankenneth (12-10-2017), ThatOwlWoman (12-10-2017)
It will be OK
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and if they vote for Moore businesses will leave the state
blackascoal (12-10-2017), evince (12-10-2017), ThatOwlWoman (12-10-2017)
Moore's election sure isn't going to help the State's image
Environmental degradation? Hell have they been to Oakland?
ThatOwlWoman (12-10-2017)
blackascoal (12-10-2017), ThatOwlWoman (12-10-2017)
I've been to Oakland, and while it has its share of problems, I have never seen anything like this there:
That speaks to what the UN dude is saying: this is the kind of stuff that is really not seen in developed nations. This is the kind of thing you might see in the developing world. And even then, only in the worst, most impoverished areas.U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.
It is inexcusable to have this kind of poverty in our great nation. Just my opinion, but not sure if conservatives share it.
ThatOwlWoman (12-10-2017)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Bill (12-11-2017), ThatOwlWoman (12-10-2017)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Althea (12-10-2017), ThatOwlWoman (12-10-2017)
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