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Old 06-02-2018, 12:34 PM
 
Location: NE Mississippi
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The Left, wild eyed and desperate, has done it again.


This report is dated June 2, right?
But here we are right here on CD, discussing it in Dec, 2017. Look for yourself.


And here's the actual report by the writer, indicating the work was done over a 2 week period in November, 2017. Two weeks.

OHCHR | Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights*


It's The UN, folks! They want our money and they want lots of it. Trump, thankfully, has told the UN where to stick it and Nikki Haley is doing a marvelous job of representing US interests.
There are poor people in all countries. America has them, too, and in no greater numbers than almost any other country.


The UN wasn't interested during the years 2008 - 2016. Wonder why that is?
But I guess in a few months someone else will discover this gem and we'll talk about it again.
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Old 06-02-2018, 12:40 PM
 
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True. But Obama didn't promise them the moon the way Trump did.
Sure he did.
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Old 06-02-2018, 12:41 PM
 
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Wait, so you don’t like “Scandinavian socialism” anymore? Imagine that.
What you replied to has long been my position. If we don't have to pay for the wars, I do not understand why we have to pay for anything.

Are you going to explain it to me?
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Old 06-02-2018, 12:58 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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So MAGA does not include folks that need a hand? A society will be judged on how it treats its most needy and destitute and how it puts policies in place to improve the quality of life for ALL. The USA is failing miserably as we allow the sociopaths on the right to rule the day. A selfish pandering grifter such as Trump and his equally self-serving kin are merely a symptom of the disease and the final straw of what has been a long time coming. If we do not turn things around and quickly, the USA is a complete failure and a broken relic of the foundation that the founders envisioned...a failed experiment that never reached its desired and intended conclusion.
Most people think of poverty as not having sufficient food, clothing and/or housing. But remember, the poverty (in all administrations) level number in the US is not based on any of that. It is reported by income only based on the last census, not by what you have/don't have or what you and I think of as poverty.

I have always thought that the government did it this way (used annual income as the deciding poverty number) because it is the easiest way to measure it, not because of some nefarious reason. So you could own a house, a car, a TV set, a computer, a cell phone and a game system, but if your income is below X dollars (don't know the current amount threshold), you are counted in the poverty statistics.

That being said, we know that the people running across our Southern border (minus any terrorists or dope dealers or human traffickers) are all low income because that's why they claim they are coming here. They're poor. Even the lying sack of new media types know that to be true. And we know that the politicians who want to keep them coming, in the Democrat party, want to keep them dependent on freebies and coming so they will vote for them and keep them in power and the Republicans who want to keep them coming in want cheap labor for their big donors and the Catholic Church who wants to keep them coming in is looking to put more fannies in their pews to replace the people who have left the church and also to add to their dwindling number of nuns and priests. You can best believe if they were coming from some non-Catholic countries, the Catholic Church wouldn't give a flying fig about "sanctuary."

So, let's get real about poverty. We all know poverty in the US is nothing like poverty in some other countries where people really do not have enough to eat or clothes or housing. You want to reduce poverty numbers in the US, put up the border wall and stop letting every poor person in, that countries are dumping on us aided and abetted by our ratbast**** politicians.

A 3.8 unemployment level ain't bad. Now teach citizens to only have the children they can afford without government assistance, to stop using drugs and alcohol, and the citizens who really need help can be addressed.

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From CNN Money: "The jobless rate ticked down to 3.8% in May, another sign of the strong economy and tight labor market. That tied the lowest unemployment rate since 1969. Since then, the only other time unemployment was this low was in April 2000. "It fell for all the right reasons. We had more people coming into the labor market. We saw employers digging deeper into the pool of unemployed," said Josh Wright, chief economist at the software firm iCIMS. The jobs report painted a picture of an economy with opportunities for almost everyone. Black unemployment fell to a record low, and the gap between black and white unemployment shrank to the narrowest ever measured. The unemployment rate among African-Americans and Asian-Americans has been steadily declining. It has also dropped among low-education workers and even teenagers."

Unemployment rate matches lowest point in half a century
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From The Financial Times: "Critically, the job expansion was accompanied by strong wage growth, which has not always kept up with the increase in jobs during the current expansion. Average earnings rising to a 2.7 per cent year-on-year pace in May, from 2.6 per cent in April. Month-on-month, wages rose 0.3 per cent, versus a forecast for 0.2 per cent growth."

https://www.ft.com/content/bbf85c42-...2-9563a0613e56
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From Marketwatch: "What happened: Retailers led the way in hiring by adding 31,000 new jobs. Health-care companies boosted payrolls by 29,000, construction firms took on 25,000 workers and manufacturers increased employment by 18,000. Steady hiring by construction and manufacturing companies is particularly surprising. They are the among the industries that have complained the loudest about a shortage of skilled workers. Record job openings, an uber-tight labor market and growing complaints about a labor shortage still aren’t leading to big pay raises most employees, but wages are rising gradually."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us...-38-2018-06-01
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Old 06-02-2018, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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Assuming it was even legal or constitutional, who will pay for such a massive "clean up" effort? Are you willing to see your taxes go up to cover the extraordinary cost this would entail?

Yeah...didn't think so.
A "desire"(?) for punishment (of one's political foes) has nothing to do with this: Irrational behavior, whether individual or in the actions of a mob, is going to be viewed as a threat to all, and those threatened, whether as individual property owners or legally-constituted civil authority, have the right to take actions to defend themselves and their own.

And no mature industrial, (or post-industrial) economy is anywhere close to that sort of a breakdown -- only the rotting sections in which socialist "compassion" has clearly failed.

Or, as I suspect, do our resident riffraff feel that this applies only in certain cases -- to be determined by the twisted "standards" of Political Correctness?

Last edited by 2nd trick op; 06-02-2018 at 02:29 PM..
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Old 06-02-2018, 05:05 PM
 
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Stupidity (a/k/a Leftism) has its own consequences! The Trumpsters have their own blind spots, but they have little to do with this. We need to "sweep the streets" and deliver the truly dysfunctional to a place where they can't get out, and liquor, drugs, and Democrats can't get in. Then the problem can be cleaned up, with a strong hand, on a case-by-case basis,
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Old 06-02-2018, 05:23 PM
 
Location: London
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So you're saying that you would go to a Democratic place just because it's Democratic and not consider where you're best opportunity was?

I hope that thinking cap comes in an adjustable size.
The places most generous and forgiving of the homeless tend to be Democrat turf.

If a person without means to rent goes to SF, they'll be fed, offered various social programs, and a mild climate to be left alone in.

If they go to rural Oklahoma, a cop will probably come by, give them a good whack with their baton and tell them to move the f along unless they want to go to jail.
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Old 06-02-2018, 05:26 PM
 
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The places most generous and forgiving of the homeless tend to be Democrat turf.

If a person without means to rent goes to SF, they'll be fed, offered various social programs, and a mild climate to be left alone in.
I imagine you are fully aware of this already.

Box City Homeless Encampment Gets Evicted - January 6, 2017 - SF Weekly
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Heart of the desert lands
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This is the epitome of fake news.

Headline: America's poor becoming more destitute under Trump - U.N. expert

Reality: the data from the U.S. Census Bureau he cited covers only the period through 2016, and he gave no comparative figures on the extent of poverty before and after Trump came into office in January 2017.

Assumption: It is based on his mission in December to several U.S. states, including rural Alabama, a slum in downtown Los Angeles, California, and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

Talk about skewed reporting...

Go to the worst areas in the country and extrapolate data on "several" areas to the whole country.
This.

We should trust UN affiliated data, being filtered through left leaning reporters like we trust gas station sushi.........
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:21 PM
 
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Sure he did.
Show us how he did it, just like trump?
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