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

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/15/america-extreme-poverty-un-special-rapporteur

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/15/america-un-extreme-poverty-trump-republicans

To put these 2 articles simply, the US is considered worse off than any 3rd World nation known, according to the UN... Also, it's all because of Trump's tax plan due to pass soon.

Yeah... Please, fuck off, UN.

 

[Shokew]

Income inequality is the dumbest, most irrelevant "statistic" lefties use to push their agenda.

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.

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

Income inequality is the dumbest, most irrelevant "statistic" lefties use to push their agenda.

If only everyone always maintained $5m in their accounts (no more, no less), then everything would be fine.

 

[Shokew]

If only everyone always maintained $5m in their accounts (no more, no less), then everything would be fine.

1) Not everyone is that lucky or successful, m8, to be serious for a moment - good idea as that sounds.
2) Communism! I'll maintain as much as I wanna! *Rattles some cans*

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

1) Not everyone is that lucky or successful, m8, to be serious for a moment - good idea as that sounds.
2) Communism! I'll maintain as much as I wanna! *Rattles some cans*

This was an actual thing Moviebob (I think) said.

 

[Shokew]

This was an actual thing Moviebob (I think) said.

The $5m thing??? If so, I'm sure his neighbors are more well off, despite not having nearly that much, then - even if only by not being fat, annoying fucks like he is, too.

 

[AnOminous]

The U.N to me is the equivalent of a middle school hall monitor that likes to pretend that his position gives him legitimate authority over other students. He barks orders, threaten to tattle when you ignore them, write you slips for a detention that you'll probably just skip, and every other kid makes fun of him to his face and behind his back.

So like a Kiwi Farms mod then.

 

[LocalFireDept]

The Unintelligent Niggos?

 

[GS 281]

I'll believe the UN's report when I come across a town in the U.S. full of nothing but huts made from roofing tin with no electricity, running water or communication and the residents drinking water from a muddy pond that they also shit in.

You've clearly never been to Detroit.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Our income inequality is terrible, yes and it needs to be fixed. HOWEVER, our poverty simply does not compare. We have infrastructure and in some cases support. We need to do a lot more, but it doesn't compare to Brazil's favelas, Zimbabwe or most of Africa. It's insane to compare it to the third world where infrastructure doesn't exist and their medical care is non existent.

This is the UN shitting on the US because we don't tow their faggot no borders line. Just like Japan, which basically told them to fuck off. And what is the UN going to do? Throw their army of degenerate pedophiles at us?

 

[Zarkov]

UN thread when ?

 

[Hyperion]

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

How much longer is this country going to allow the constant insults by this farce of an organization? Just watch what would happen if we just told them to fuck off and leave. What do you think would happen? I'll tell you what would happen, the UN would suffer budget crisis after budget crisis and nothing of consequence would happen to us, what can they do? Declare the United States of America a rogue state? Form a UN coalition to invade and take us down?

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.

 

[Shokew]

Our income inequality is terrible, yes and it needs to be fixed. HOWEVER, our poverty simply does not compare. We have infrastructure and in some cases support. We need to do a lot more, but it doesn't compare to Brazil's favelas, Zimbabwe or most of Africa. It's insane to compare it to the third world where infrastructure doesn't exist and their medical care is non existent.

This is the UN shitting on the US because we don't tow their faggot no borders line. Just like Japan, which basically told them to fuck off. And what is the UN going to do? Throw their army of degenerate pedophiles at us?

Good comment - you win. Seriously, I mean that - even if it ain't much.

UN thread when ?

Hopefully soon if they keep this good salty shite up.

How much longer is this country going to allow the constant insults by this farce of an organization? Just watch what would happen if we just told them to fuck off and leave. What do you think would happen? I'll tell you what would happen, the UN would suffer budget crisis after budget crisis and nothing of consequence would happen to us, what can they do? Declare the United States of America a rogue state? Form a UN coalition to invade and take us down?

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 peace, which has caused nothing but misery and death, the United Nations failed on their first big challenge.

Like I said, Trump and his Congress could do some good in the world if they could pass some legislation dismantling the UN, already - that, and getting this Mexican borderwall built - maybe someday... Wishful thinking, I know - I don't mind.

 

[oldTireWater]

Some reservations are genuine third world. So are some rural areas. But most of the US? Not by a long shot.

 

[AnOminous]

You've clearly never been to Detroit.

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.

 

[Syaoran Li]

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.

Don't forget the rural coalfields of Central Appalachia. The poverty in the extreme regions of Southwest Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and a good chunk of West Virginia is staggering in many areas. It's like a wooded Detroit for white people.

Then there's the Indian Reservations, as someone else has already mentioned. And the inner-city nightmares you just listed.

The United States has a lot of Third World-tier shitholes, especially in places like Appalachia and the Rust Belt. That being said, the UN can go fuck themselves.

This UN report is less about actually helping the poor of America and is instead just the UN and EU virtue-signaling and gloating.

 

[GS 281]

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.

Flint is beautiful tho

 

[Slowboat to China]

The country with the epidemic of obesity is worse off than most third-world nations.

I find myself questioning their logic.

 

[Male Idiot]

Well what an UN-intelligent organisation. Who still takes them seriously beside dangerhairs? Even Fatty Rocketman is laughing at them.

 

[Ruin]

The country with the epidemic of obesity is worse off than most third-world nations.

I find myself questioning their logic.

Mexico actually has a higher obesity rate than the U.S