UN: US inequality reaching a dangerous level due to Trump's 'cruel' measures
Source:
The Guardian
Donald Trump is deliberately forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections while lavishing vast riches on the super-wealthy, the United Nations monitor on poverty has warned.
Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur who acts as a watchdog on extreme poverty around the world, has issued a withering critique of the state of America today. Trump is steering the country towards a “dramatic change of direction” that is rewarding the rich and punishing the poor by blocking access even to the most meager necessities.
“This is a systematic attack on America’s welfare program that is undermining the social safety net for those who can’t cope on their own. Once you start removing any sense of government commitment, you quickly move into cruelty,” Alston told the Guardian.
Millions of Americans already struggling to make ends meet faced “ruination”, he warned. “If food stamps and access to Medicaid are removed, and housing subsidies cut, then the effect on people living on the margins will be drastic.”
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Trump's 'cruel' measures pushing US inequality to dangerous level, UN warns
Anyone that isn't rich should think twice before they ever vote republican again! I am dead serious.
So, I'm a bit curious, exactly what do you Marxists mean by income equality?
Should the high school drop out who flips burgers be making the same income as the person that attended six years of medical school, two years of residency and another two years of a specialty? OR....do you mean that the person that flips burgers at McDonald's should make the same as the person that is preparing tacos in Taco Bell?
I can agree with the latter, after all, neither has any technical skills other than being able to build a sandwich. However, the other is living in fantasy land. In the first scenario, there's "no" incentive for someone to become a general physician or cardiac surgeon, if he/she makes no more than a burger flipper.
On a very simplistic scale, a society consists of:
Farmers (produce and livestock).
Migrant farm produce pickers.
Commercial drivers (produce/product transporters, taxi drivers, etc.).
Grocers.
Shelving stock personnel.
Military (officers and enlisted, which tends to mean different income brackets).
Government employees.
Office workers.
Food service personnel.
Retailers.
Custodial personnel (janitors, etc.)
Law enforcement.
The others require a good deal of college or specialty training:
Emergency service workers (paramedics, fire personnel).
Doctors.
Nurses.
Lawyers.
Assorted scientists of differing fields.
The latter batch of people are going to see no benefit to putting in so much training if the pay is no better than say, a migrant produce picker.
As for Marxism, it still remains unsuccessful.
North Korea: Excluding the politburo politicians, everybody is poor, many are hungry and even the military enlisted personnel are poor.
Venezuela: The populace is not only poor but starving. The government likes to blame the US, be we aren't involved in their issues..
Vietnam: Most are living poorly.
Cuba: Most are living poorly.
China: Most are living poorly.
Sweden/Norway/et cetera: These are actually free Capitalist countries with some Socialist programs, however, because of the huge influx of migrants, their economies are tanking under the financial strain of demands on their social programs.
I suggest actually taking the time to read our US Constitution, it's Amendments, Federalist Papers and take some courses on business economics.