UN Extreme Poverty in the US - According to the UN, we're worse off than most 3rd world nations

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Shokew said:
Too bad said liberal sales pitch does work, especially when you look at how many people are attached to the welfare state in the US right now, but not always for what it is meant to do: give you a small boost in the right direction, via finding a real job/(hopefully) career as soon as you can ween yourself off of it, so you're not over-reliant on it.

Especially when there's real money to be made out there, without being a burden on someone else who truly needs the help - keep in mind there are a lot of lolcows we diss on here that abuse this already shite system, too.
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part of the issue is that while the economy has recovered overall, it hasn't been an evenly distributed recovery and in some parts of the country there really are not enough good jobs to go around
and 'just move' isn't a great idea. beijing gets millions of rednecks pouring in every year and they're running out of space. since it's china, the government can just destroy their shantytowns, but in the us we slightly frown upon that.
 
tbf, we do have the 3rd largest population, one of the highest gdp's in the world, probably, and we are pretty high up on having lots of poor people. we're not as bad as most 3rd world nations though, unless you're counting in ireland, but it's not great
not sure what we can realistically do about it though. my mother thinks that all american citizens should get 1 million dollars a year, which wouldnt work realistically at all. maybe minimum ubi might help? idk.
 
AnOminous said:
Or East St. Louis. Or Newark. Or Benton Harbor. Or Camden. Or South Central. Or any of a huge number of fucking hellish shitholes that exist in the U.S. that are, in fact, literally Third World Shit.

If you don't think there's insanely awful poverty in the U.S., you are a suburbian faggot and should STFU.
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Even in those places you can catch a bus, or get a hospital room, or find a homeless shelter. Sure, they're awful places, but I wouldn't say they are third world.
 
Coleman Francis said:
Even in those places you can catch a bus, or get a hospital room, or find a homeless shelter. Sure, they're awful places, but I wouldn't say they are third world.
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Yeah, even the pictures they used show this pretty well.
What does this guy have
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That this one doesn't?
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"2 pairs of earbuds" is one possible answer
 
Lackadaisy said:
Really, we're worse off than North Korea or Zimbabwe? Fuck off, U.N.
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There are some pockets of extreme poverty in the US. But it's not like the third world. We have the infrastructure to help people. It's not always perfect. But we do try.

I saw this documentary a few years ago called Surviving Sudan. It was about refugees walking hundreds of miles through the desert to get to a camp. The guy asks this woman about how hungry her children are. And she says it's ok because they are used to not eating for days.

I don't think we have anything quite like this here. Kids don't have to walk hundreds of miles through warlord laden deserts on empty stomachs for the chance of getting some moldy, vermin filled grain from an overcrowded camp.

It's not that our hungry kids here in the US aren't just as important. It's that they aren't living in those kinds of horrific conditions in places with virtually no infrastructure set up to deal with it. We just need to make sure that the programs we have are better. It's a very bad idea to cut them. I think that the people who go around complaining about the lazy poor need to spend some time in an Appalachian shack or something.
 
The UN have given up on actually trying to help third world shitholes and are mithering Western nations just because they do shit and it makes the UN look like it's still relevant and useful.
 
When I think about what was invisioned for the UN when it was conceived, I seriously doubt this is what they had in mind.

Bob must be weeping.
 
Nacho Man Randy Salsa said:
Speaking of which, when you consider the Korean War was the first great test of the UN, and that we came out with a compromised victory which has caused nothing but misery and death, the United Nations failed on their first big challenge.
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Ironically the UN (along with the Soviet Union) also fucked up the situation in Israel/Palestine perhaps worse than any of the local actors by pulling their "peacekeeping" forces out of Egypt in the build up to the war of 1967. Which deprived Nasser of his best "out" to stop the military build up when it became clear the intelligence he was receiving from the soviets about an immanent Israeli preemptive strike was false.

That was actually their first real deployment, it began in response to the Suez crises about 10 years earlier but were pulled out as soon as there was the prospect of an actual conflict, proving their uselessness.

Slowboat to China said:
The country with the epidemic of obesity is worse off than most third-world nations.

I find myself questioning their logic.
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Ruin said:
Mexico actually has a higher obesity rate than the U.S
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Blacks, Hispanics and even native Americans (giving what little reliable info we have on them) are actually on average more likely to be overweight than whites in the US.

You know, the people who are on average poorer and more likely to be on food stamps. Really makes you think doesn't it ?
 
Isn't it because junk food is super cheap in the us? I always found it unbelievable that going to mcdonalds in some places is less expensive than eating home.
 
Somsnosa said:
Isn't it because junk food is super cheap in the us? I always found it unbelievable that going to mcdonalds in some places is less expensive than eating home.
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Food stamps don't buy fast food, so unless they're feeding themselves entirely on bags of potato chips and cookies that doesn't explain it.

Also even if they prefer that to buying rice and beans it doesn't change the fact that their being fed, regardless of what calories they chose to eat.
 
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What the fuck is this shit?

"Trump turning US into 'world champion of extreme inequality', UN envoy warns"?


As if two centuries of constantly shifting social dynamics and recent economic globalization hasn't done a single thing. Trump did it all in on year.

It already was, you fucking idiots.

First, the bad news. The distribution of income in the United States has been more unequal under Obama’s presidency than any time since the 1930s, according to the Gini Index, a conventional measure of the inequality. What’s going on here?
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/barack-obama-inequality-fighter/486401/​
 
Wesley Willis said:
What the fuck is this shit?

"Trump turning US into 'world champion of extreme inequality', UN envoy warns"?


As if two centuries of constantly shifting social dynamics and recent economic globalization hasn't done a single thing. Trump did it all in on year.

It already was, you fucking idiots.

First, the bad news. The distribution of income in the United States has been more unequal under Obama’s presidency than any time since the 1930s, according to the Gini Index, a conventional measure of the inequality. What’s going on here?
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/barack-obama-inequality-fighter/486401/​
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I'm not particularly fond of Trump, but I'll be the first to say blaming him for what had been set decades prior to his inauguration is totally bogus.
 
Wesley Willis said:
Obama’s presidency than any time since the 1930s, according to the Gini Index, a conventional measure of the inequality. What’s going on here?
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Obama, IMO, did everything in his power to dismantle the Constitution, wreck the economy, put us further into debt, foment racism, and to do as much damage to the US as possible. These days he keeps busy badmouthing the President to anyone who will listen, and is allegedly part of a shadow group working to try and oust DJT from office. BHO hates America and everything it was founded on.
 
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