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Bad neighborhoods are the result of the people who live there. If the grass is not trimmed or the house isn't maintained, then whose fault is that? The UN critic seems to think that the neighborhood should be maintained by the government or that if you gave more money to irresponsible people then they would use it responsibly.
The UN critic is out of touch with reality. There are slums in France and the UK that are way worse than what he saw in Alabama. And southern Italy has long been full of run down slums.
Here is one Paris slum that is famous for its crime and drugs:
Whether you like it or not
There are areas in Alabama--maybe some inside a city's limits, maybe outside in unincorporated county land where people live in poverty--and there are few if any government/private services to counteract that poverty
Do you not believe that people in Alabama develop hookworm infections because they go barefoot in areas where the ground is contaminated with those parasites or live in homes where raw sewage is disposed of in public "streets"
I don't think the UN rep is out of touch with reality--I imagine he has either visited first hand or read of many similar circumstances in other countries--
The point being made is that the United States has problems which for a country with such wealth are EMBARASSING --- we have the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world...
That is shameful and due to the government's resistance to pay for universal health care for its citizens...
But we can afford to give a huge tax break to the wealthiest American (no estate tax) and cut corporate tax rate (but not the deductions business has access to)...
There is no collective will to deal with chronic problems like this article points out the US has...
The Hookworm problem has been studied and documented for years. A combination of rural poverty and poor soil are to blame. Some of the towns have a population of a few hundred. Installing the infrastructure to meet the EPA standards would cost hundreds of millions. The solution is really quite simple from an engineering and medical perspective and would only require a simple waiver of EPA guidelines. Guess which administration was opposed to such waivers?
Alabama was part of my territory at one time, and it is definitely a whole different world down there. They do not trust most people outside the State, and are very clannish. When I saw how they were ignoring the sins of Moore, it all made sense.
They will continue to vote for people who do nothing for them, and think they have done the right thing. Very stubborn people, they are.
Did they happen to swing by fire ravaged California? It happens to have the highest poverty rate in the U.S. when cost of living is factored in. They should do a drive by and see the tent cities and homeless including an almost infinite amount of drug addicts living on the streets.
Does anyone actually care what the UN has to say? The UN is a failure by any measure.
As Americans we should care that all Americans have basic sanitation, etc.
To make it a political issue is disgusting, especially for professionals who understand the underlying root cause of the problem.
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