Trump administration feels it's "ridiculous" for United Nations to study poverty in America

[DOTR]

Nikki Haley: 'Ridiculous' for UN to analyze poverty in America

“At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power,” the report reads. “With political will, it could readily be eliminated.”

The report said American democracy "is being steadily undermined" and provided several suggestions for how to alleviate poverty in the U.S. The recommendations said American citizens must realize taxes "are in their interest" and that the U.S. "must recognize a right to health care."

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Under Trump, the income gap is growing faster than ever before. Which was the Republicans goal when they elected Trump.

http://www.feedingamerica.org/assets/pdfs/fact-sheets/poverty-and-hunger-fact-sheet.pdf

Wow, 40 million Americans live in poverty. Wanna bet the majority are Trump voters?

A View From Appalachia: Living Below The Poverty Line

But I thought the economy was so wonderful.

It is. If you're a millionaire. Sadly, most of Trump's voters aren't millionaires.

Poverty??? Hahahaha!!!
Supposedly poverty is anything below For example, the poverty level for a household of four is an annual income of $24,600.
Are You Eligible for Federal Benefits in 2018?

Let's see my Dad raised us 4 kids my mom was not employed. We mowed lawns. Shoveled snow. worked in 5 neighbors gardens and we had a paper route.
My Dad grossed $500/month and this was in 1950s.
Now we didn't have free cell phones. Section 8 rent free. SNAP. SS and the like and we would have been considered living in poverty.
BUT we never considered that! We had food, shelter, clothes and we all graduated from high school and college.

Hmmmm... Poverty!!

Oh and by the way Next time you pass 10 people ... ONE of them maybe a millionaire!
The U.S. now has a record of more than 11 million millionaire households... net worth Assets less debts... over $1 million...
11 million divided into 115 million households works out to 1 out of 10!
Maybe you are walking in the wrong crowd!

The USA created 500,000 millionaires each year. But they’re not being created by hard work. 75% of the wealthy admit they inherited substantial funds which helped them get even richer. Millionaires are being created by transferring wealth from the working and middle class to the top. Robbing from the poor to give to the rich.

And while you’re thinking that all those millionaires means your nation is doing well. Unfortunately 75% of Americans are now struggling financially precisely because of that transfer of wealth. And their numbers are growing under Trump.

In real terms year 4 million babies are born in the US each year. 3 million of those babies will be poor and struggling all their lives. You think this is wonderful because you think you’re going to be one of the lucky ones who makes it. The odds are not in your favour. Not unless you were born rich.

WHERE did you get this total LIE?
"But they’re not being created by hard work. 75% of the wealthy admit they inherited substantial funds"

As usual, idiots like you get your numbers ass backwards! GEEZ at least show a link so you can blame someone else DUMMY!

FACTS!!!
According to Thomas J. Stanley's book, "The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy," only 20% of millionaires inherited their riches. The other 80% are what you'd call nouveau riche: first generation millionaires who earned their cash on their own. Many millionaires simply worked, saved and lived within their means to generate their wealth - think accountants and managers: regular people going to work every day.
Most millionaires didn't get their riches overnight when a rich relative died - they worked for the money.
7 Millionaire Myths 7 Millionaire Myths

Your answer is based on a book?

Ecocertifmrl has no need of that thar book larnin.

 

[DOTR]

I live in Chicago.

What can I do in Appalachia, the very center of the Republican Party.

Hey jackass why don’t you start with Chicago? Don’t worry about Appalachia.

Chicago has a long history of public corruption that regularly draws the attention of federal law enforcement and federal prosecutors. Chicago's political landscape has been firmly under the control of the Democratic Party for over 50 years and has been widely described as a political machine.

Chicago's homicide rate had surpassed that of Los Angeles by 2010 (16.02 per 100,000), and was more than twice that of New York City (7.0 per 100,000) in the same year. By the end of 2015, Chicago's homicide rate would rise to 18.6 per 100,000. By 2016, Chicago had recorded more homicides and shooting victims than New York City and Los Angeles combined.

Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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Hilarious, there are millions more people living in Appalachia than in a few blocks in Chicago.

Sad their own party constantly points to those few blocks so they can feel superior. Especially when their own people are going through a horrendous drug epidemic along with terrible poverty.

Appalachia has 25000000 population and Chicago is 3 million. Yet Chicago records more murders in a week than Appalachia in a year. More overdoses more beatings more raped.
Fix your own Democrat run hellhole before you worry about Appalachia.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Nikki Haley: 'Ridiculous' for UN to analyze poverty in America

“At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power,” the report reads. “With political will, it could readily be eliminated.”

The report said American democracy "is being steadily undermined" and provided several suggestions for how to alleviate poverty in the U.S. The recommendations said American citizens must realize taxes "are in their interest" and that the U.S. "must recognize a right to health care."

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Under Trump, the income gap is growing faster than ever before. Which was the Republicans goal when they elected Trump.

http://www.feedingamerica.org/assets/pdfs/fact-sheets/poverty-and-hunger-fact-sheet.pdf

Wow, 40 million Americans live in poverty. Wanna bet the majority are Trump voters?

A View From Appalachia: Living Below The Poverty Line

But I thought the economy was so wonderful.

It is. If you're a millionaire. Sadly, most of Trump's voters aren't millionaires.

The poorest person in America has access to drinking water and electricity. You dont see ANYONE sneaking across the border headed TO Mexico or hopping an inner tube TO Fidel.

Trumps second term America withdraws from the UN and they're shown the exit

 

[Dragonlady]

I live in Chicago.

What can I do in Appalachia, the very center of the Republican Party.

Hey jackass why don’t you start with Chicago? Don’t worry about Appalachia.

Chicago has a long history of public corruption that regularly draws the attention of federal law enforcement and federal prosecutors. Chicago's political landscape has been firmly under the control of the Democratic Party for over 50 years and has been widely described as a political machine.

Chicago's homicide rate had surpassed that of Los Angeles by 2010 (16.02 per 100,000), and was more than twice that of New York City (7.0 per 100,000) in the same year. By the end of 2015, Chicago's homicide rate would rise to 18.6 per 100,000. By 2016, Chicago had recorded more homicides and shooting victims than New York City and Los Angeles combined.

Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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Hilarious, there are millions more people living in Appalachia than in a few blocks in Chicago.

Sad their own party constantly points to those few blocks so they can feel superior. Especially when their own people are going through a horrendous drug epidemic along with terrible poverty.

Sorry but when it comes to murder vs drug abuse, I'd say the former is a much bigger problem for society than the latter.

At this point in time, the opioid crisis is a much bigger problem than murder which is declining in the US.

42,000 people died in the US from opioid abuse in 2017. 17,000 were murdered. But the costs being imposed on the nation by the opioid crisis go far beyond the loss of life.

Small communities are being bankrupted by the cost of providing treatment for drug overdoses. Some people want to set limits on how many times they’ll treat overdoses. Some addicts have OD’d five times. Then there’s things like foster care for the children of chronic drug abusers.

The total costs run into the billions, both in terms of the direct cost of medical treatments, but also in terms of lost productivity and the damage done to families and communities. It’s estimate that these costs will be $500 billion over the next 3 years.

Yes, murder is a terrible thing but it is dwarfed by the damage being done by the opioid crisis.

 

[Defiant1]

I live in Chicago.

What can I do in Appalachia, the very center of the Republican Party.

Hey jackass why don’t you start with Chicago? Don’t worry about Appalachia.

Chicago has a long history of public corruption that regularly draws the attention of federal law enforcement and federal prosecutors. Chicago's political landscape has been firmly under the control of the Democratic Party for over 50 years and has been widely described as a political machine.

Chicago's homicide rate had surpassed that of Los Angeles by 2010 (16.02 per 100,000), and was more than twice that of New York City (7.0 per 100,000) in the same year. By the end of 2015, Chicago's homicide rate would rise to 18.6 per 100,000. By 2016, Chicago had recorded more homicides and shooting victims than New York City and Los Angeles combined.

Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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Hilarious, there are millions more people living in Appalachia than in a few blocks in Chicago.

Sad their own party constantly points to those few blocks so they can feel superior. Especially when their own people are going through a horrendous drug epidemic along with terrible poverty.

Sorry but when it comes to murder vs drug abuse, I'd say the former is a much bigger problem for society than the latter.

At this point in time, the opioid crisis is a much bigger problem than murder which is declining in the US.

42,000 people died in the US from opioid abuse in 2017. 17,000 were murdered. But the costs being imposed on the nation by the opioid crisis go far beyond the loss of life.

Small communities are being bankrupted by the cost of providing treatment for drug overdoses. Some people want to set limits on how many times they’ll treat overdoses. Some addicts have OD’d five times. Then there’s things like foster care for the children of chronic drug abusers.

The total costs run into the billions, both in terms of the direct cost of medical treatments, but also in terms of lost productivity and the damage done to families and communities. It’s estimate that these costs will be $500 billion over the next 3 years.

Yes, murder is a terrible thing but it is dwarfed by the damage being done by the opioid crisis.

Cut off the treatment and support for drug users and the problem will fix itself.

 

[healthmyths]

Nikki Haley: 'Ridiculous' for UN to analyze poverty in America

“At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power,” the report reads. “With political will, it could readily be eliminated.”

The report said American democracy "is being steadily undermined" and provided several suggestions for how to alleviate poverty in the U.S. The recommendations said American citizens must realize taxes "are in their interest" and that the U.S. "must recognize a right to health care."

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Under Trump, the income gap is growing faster than ever before. Which was the Republicans goal when they elected Trump.

http://www.feedingamerica.org/assets/pdfs/fact-sheets/poverty-and-hunger-fact-sheet.pdf

Wow, 40 million Americans live in poverty. Wanna bet the majority are Trump voters?

A View From Appalachia: Living Below The Poverty Line

But I thought the economy was so wonderful.

It is. If you're a millionaire. Sadly, most of Trump's voters aren't millionaires.

Poverty??? Hahahaha!!!
Supposedly poverty is anything below For example, the poverty level for a household of four is an annual income of $24,600.
Are You Eligible for Federal Benefits in 2018?

Let's see my Dad raised us 4 kids my mom was not employed. We mowed lawns. Shoveled snow. worked in 5 neighbors gardens and we had a paper route.
My Dad grossed $500/month and this was in 1950s.
Now we didn't have free cell phones. Section 8 rent free. SNAP. SS and the like and we would have been considered living in poverty.
BUT we never considered that! We had food, shelter, clothes and we all graduated from high school and college.

Hmmmm... Poverty!!

Oh and by the way Next time you pass 10 people ... ONE of them maybe a millionaire!
The U.S. now has a record of more than 11 million millionaire households... net worth Assets less debts... over $1 million...
11 million divided into 115 million households works out to 1 out of 10!
Maybe you are walking in the wrong crowd!

The USA created 500,000 millionaires each year. But they’re not being created by hard work. 75% of the wealthy admit they inherited substantial funds which helped them get even richer. Millionaires are being created by transferring wealth from the working and middle class to the top. Robbing from the poor to give to the rich.

And while you’re thinking that all those millionaires means your nation is doing well. Unfortunately 75% of Americans are now struggling financially precisely because of that transfer of wealth. And their numbers are growing under Trump.

In real terms year 4 million babies are born in the US each year. 3 million of those babies will be poor and struggling all their lives. You think this is wonderful because you think you’re going to be one of the lucky ones who makes it. The odds are not in your favour. Not unless you were born rich.

WHERE did you get this total LIE?
"But they’re not being created by hard work. 75% of the wealthy admit they inherited substantial funds"

As usual, idiots like you get your numbers ass backwards! GEEZ at least show a link so you can blame someone else DUMMY!

FACTS!!!
According to Thomas J. Stanley's book, "The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy," only 20% of millionaires inherited their riches. The other 80% are what you'd call nouveau riche: first generation millionaires who earned their cash on their own. Many millionaires simply worked, saved and lived within their means to generate their wealth - think accountants and managers: regular people going to work every day.
Most millionaires didn't get their riches overnight when a rich relative died - they worked for the money.
7 Millionaire Myths 7 Millionaire Myths

Your answer is based on a book?

Ok ...

https://www.ustrust.com/publish/content/application/pdf/GWMOL/USTp_AR9R6RKS_2016-05.pdf

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Haley is full of shit, just like her master. Poverty exists to a significant degree in the U.S. Why not analyze it? Is there something to be afraid of?

Why would we have to have food pantries, why would we have people living in run-down and unsafe housing, why would America's school children have to rely on food provided at their schools, why do Americans have no access to health care, why do we have widespread opioid addiction, if this is such a heavenly place? Poverty is all over this country, in the cities and in the rural areas. Why run from it or try to conceal it?

Those are GOP goals. Most of those food pantries and people living in run down and unsafe housing are Trump voters. Because for them, it's about race. Even if you have no running water, no electricity and you get your heat from cutting down trees and you aren't even sure if you will eat tomorrow, the most scary thing there is, is a black person you don't know, don't talk to and have no contact with.
Trump plays that song even better than the rest of the GOP leadership.

Blacks will kill you.
Hispanics will take your jobs.
Gays will molest your children.

These montra's keep the base voting GOP.

We are going to give you free shit that others pay for. How the left keeps their base.

You mean free money from hard working liberals, that's how right wingers are kept from starving.

What ?

 

[Thinker101]

The UN is worthless. Has been for decades now.

I admit that it is quite for you if you don't listen to it. That's just a way to isolate your nation from civilization.

Yup, that's exactly what we want to do, be civilized just like the Middle East...dumbass.

 

[Thinker101]

Haley is full of shit, just like her master. Poverty exists to a significant degree in the U.S. Why not analyze it? Is there something to be afraid of?

Why would we have to have food pantries, why would we have people living in run-down and unsafe housing, why would America's school children have to rely on food provided at their schools, why do Americans have no access to health care, why do we have widespread opioid addiction, if this is such a heavenly place? Poverty is all over this country, in the cities and in the rural areas. Why run from it or try to conceal it?

Those are GOP goals. Most of those food pantries and people living in run down and unsafe housing are Trump voters. Because for them, it's about race. Even if you have no running water, no electricity and you get your heat from cutting down trees and you aren't even sure if you will eat tomorrow, the most scary thing there is, is a black person you don't know, don't talk to and have no contact with.
Trump plays that song even better than the rest of the GOP leadership.

Blacks will kill you.
Hispanics will take your jobs.
Gays will molest your children.

These montra's keep the base voting GOP.

We are going to give you free shit that others pay for. How the left keeps their base.

You mean free money from hard working liberals, that's how right wingers are kept from starving.

Yeah, liberals working hard to take money from conservatives.

 

[DOTR]

I live in Chicago.

What can I do in Appalachia, the very center of the Republican Party.

Hey jackass why don’t you start with Chicago? Don’t worry about Appalachia.

Chicago has a long history of public corruption that regularly draws the attention of federal law enforcement and federal prosecutors. Chicago's political landscape has been firmly under the control of the Democratic Party for over 50 years and has been widely described as a political machine.

Chicago's homicide rate had surpassed that of Los Angeles by 2010 (16.02 per 100,000), and was more than twice that of New York City (7.0 per 100,000) in the same year. By the end of 2015, Chicago's homicide rate would rise to 18.6 per 100,000. By 2016, Chicago had recorded more homicides and shooting victims than New York City and Los Angeles combined.

Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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Hilarious, there are millions more people living in Appalachia than in a few blocks in Chicago.

Sad their own party constantly points to those few blocks so they can feel superior. Especially when their own people are going through a horrendous drug epidemic along with terrible poverty.

Sorry but when it comes to murder vs drug abuse, I'd say the former is a much bigger problem for society than the latter.

At this point in time, the opioid crisis is a much bigger problem than murder which is declining in the US.

42,000 people died in the US from opioid abuse in 2017. 17,000 were murdered. But the costs being imposed on the nation by the opioid crisis go far beyond the loss of life.

Small communities are being bankrupted by the cost of providing treatment for drug overdoses. Some people want to set limits on how many times they’ll treat overdoses. Some addicts have OD’d five times. Then there’s things like foster care for the children of chronic drug abusers.

The total costs run into the billions, both in terms of the direct cost of medical treatments, but also in terms of lost productivity and the damage done to families and communities. It’s estimate that these costs will be $500 billion over the next 3 years.

Yes, murder is a terrible thing but it is dwarfed by the damage being done by the opioid crisis.

Oh my... another “crisis”. Burn the constitution and tax me more.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Haley is full of shit, just like her master. Poverty exists to a significant degree in the U.S. Why not analyze it? Is there something to be afraid of?

Why would we have to have food pantries, why would we have people living in run-down and unsafe housing, why would America's school children have to rely on food provided at their schools, why do Americans have no access to health care, why do we have widespread opioid addiction, if this is such a heavenly place? Poverty is all over this country, in the cities and in the rural areas. Why run from it or try to conceal it?

Those are GOP goals. Most of those food pantries and people living in run down and unsafe housing are Trump voters. Because for them, it's about race. Even if you have no running water, no electricity and you get your heat from cutting down trees and you aren't even sure if you will eat tomorrow, the most scary thing there is, is a black person you don't know, don't talk to and have no contact with.
Trump plays that song even better than the rest of the GOP leadership.

Blacks will kill you.
Hispanics will take your jobs.
Gays will molest your children.

These montra's keep the base voting GOP.

We are going to give you free shit that others pay for. How the left keeps their base.

You mean free money from hard working liberals, that's how right wingers are kept from starving.

What ?

Ignore her... posting moronic gibberish is what she does.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Maybe the U.N. can send a Somali crisis team over to evaluate the situation?

 

[RDD_1210]

Of course these idiots think it's ridiculous.

• They think clean air & water is ridiculous.
  
• They think everyone being able to access affordable healthcare is ridiculous.
  
• They think global warming is ridiculous
• They think any form of sensible gun control is ridiculous
• They think education is ridiculous

Ridiculous people believe ridiculous things.

You are correct to a point. Some people believe that rewarding failure and penalizing success is the secret to a good society. Some people believe if you make a law against gun ownership, the criminals will be happy to turn theirs in. Some people believe that if you force restaurants to put calorie count on all their menus, it will make fat people skinny.

Nobody believes any of that. Use your brain.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

That's interesting, so your contention is that the welfare state shrank after Reagan was elected?

The poster clearly said benefits were cut. Pay attention!

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I live in Chicago.

What can I do in Appalachia, the very center of the Republican Party.

Hey jackass why don’t you start with Chicago? Don’t worry about Appalachia.

Chicago has a long history of public corruption that regularly draws the attention of federal law enforcement and federal prosecutors. Chicago's political landscape has been firmly under the control of the Democratic Party for over 50 years and has been widely described as a political machine.

Chicago's homicide rate had surpassed that of Los Angeles by 2010 (16.02 per 100,000), and was more than twice that of New York City (7.0 per 100,000) in the same year. By the end of 2015, Chicago's homicide rate would rise to 18.6 per 100,000. By 2016, Chicago had recorded more homicides and shooting victims than New York City and Los Angeles combined.

Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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Hilarious, there are millions more people living in Appalachia than in a few blocks in Chicago.

Sad their own party constantly points to those few blocks so they can feel superior. Especially when their own people are going through a horrendous drug epidemic along with terrible poverty.

Appalachia has 25000000 population and Chicago is 3 million. Yet Chicago records more murders in a week than Appalachia in a year. More overdoses more beatings more raped.
Fix your own Democrat run hellhole before you worry about Appalachia.

You, of course, just and all that up.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Of course these idiots think it's ridiculous.

• They think clean air & water is ridiculous.
  
• They think everyone being able to access affordable healthcare is ridiculous.
  
• They think global warming is ridiculous
• They think any form of sensible gun control is ridiculous
• They think education is ridiculous

Ridiculous people believe ridiculous things.

You are correct to a point. Some people believe that rewarding failure and penalizing success is the secret to a good society. Some people believe if you make a law against gun ownership, the criminals will be happy to turn theirs in. Some people believe that if you force restaurants to put calorie count on all their menus, it will make fat people skinny.

Nobody believes any of that. Use your brain.

Then you wonder why we call you and your ilk uninformed voters? You don't even know WTF the party you support is all about.

 

[NightFox]

That's interesting, so your contention is that the welfare state shrank after Reagan was elected?

The poster clearly said benefits were cut. Pay attention!

And the responder clearly asked "What "benefits" were cut?" Of course I didn't receive an answer to either question which is par for the course from you left wing dingbats that love to make ridiculous assertions and then scurry away when challenged to back them up.

Thanks for demonstrating what a half assed attempt at parsing looks like Mr. Moore, you've certainly earned your vacation to /dev/null.

"If you don’t work for it, why do you think you deserve it?" -- Marcus Lemonis. The Profit

 

[RDD_1210]

Of course these idiots think it's ridiculous.

• They think clean air & water is ridiculous.
  
• They think everyone being able to access affordable healthcare is ridiculous.
  
• They think global warming is ridiculous
• They think any form of sensible gun control is ridiculous
• They think education is ridiculous

Ridiculous people believe ridiculous things.

You are correct to a point. Some people believe that rewarding failure and penalizing success is the secret to a good society. Some people believe if you make a law against gun ownership, the criminals will be happy to turn theirs in. Some people believe that if you force restaurants to put calorie count on all their menus, it will make fat people skinny.

Nobody believes any of that. Use your brain.

Then you wonder why we call you and your ilk uninformed voters? You don't even know WTF the party you support is all about.

Show me anywhere that the party I support claims any of those things.

When you don't respond, we'll know who was talking out of their ass.....again.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Of course I didn't receive an answer to either question

So, you invented your own. Which you would have done , anyway.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

After Trump boots the UN out, he should turn their HQ into condos. Great river views. Even better! Knock the fucking thing down and put in 1,500 new high end units!