Posted on 06/01/2018 1:22:53 PM PDT by upchuck
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.”
Asked to define “ruination”, Alston said: “Severe deprivation of food and almost no access to healthcare.”
Alston sounds the alarm in the final report of his investigation into extreme poverty in the US that is published on Friday and will be presented to the UN human rights council in Geneva at the end of June. His findings are based on a tour he carried out in December through some of America’s most destitute communities...[snip]
The report amounts to one of the most scorching assessments of Trump’s leadership in his 16 months in the White House. It is likely to spark debate across the political aisle as well as globally about the US president’s rapid drive towards heightened inequality. More lies at link.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Defund them.
the UN special rapporteur
Why can’t they just say reporter like the rest of us?
Because they are pretentious pr*cks
Get the bastards outta here
Even NYC is too good for them
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.
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Could these drama queens possibly blow more smoke up our collective obamas? This over the top rhetoric is hilarious.
Philip Alston is a flaming drama queen.
5.56mm
Kick ‘em out.
The UN is unhappy ... so Trump must be doing something right.
He's got the vision of Ray Charles, this one does. Hey, Philly, why don't you go check out Venezuela ? Oops, I guess because you probably rated it as the Marxist paradise you desire.
Oh, Prickeurs!
Ha.
Fix the names to George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama.
Then, there would be some truth.
They have to use as many French words as possible, it makes them sound so much more intelligent and refined! /s;)
Worthless despots.
They'd be a lot happier in Brussels or Bern or Oslo.
Yep, that’s why we are flooded with illegal immigrants because things are so bad here. What a bunch of dumb asses.
A “rapporteur” is someone appointed by an organization to investigate something or to give a report. In this case, his title ought to be UN Rapporteur On International Trump Derangement Syndrome. Or maybe, UN Rapporteur on Trump’s Budget Cuts to the UN.
Defund the idiots. Or let the French pay his salary.
[The UN is unhappy ... so Trump must be doing something right.]
It’s definitely a good sign when the United Nations doesn’t like something. Seeing as how they’re almost always wrong.
Resolution 181 was nothing less than a Divine Miracle.
If we are such a ‘terrible’ country and society, why do we have to WASTE good money on a WALL to keep interlopers out and if we are so ‘terrible’ why not vote to KICK US OUT of the UN because of our inhumane ways?
BTW, WE (US) will be wanting our buildings back etc, so pack your bags early.
Also, ‘everyone’ gets upset when our Leaders refer to certain countries as ‘Shiite Holes’ yet, when we vow to send miscreants back to their ‘home’, we get accused of insensitivity because we are sending human beings to ‘Shiite Hole’ countries.
DAMN YOU TO HELL TRUMP!
No good deed goes unpunished!
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