VT Insight: Bernie Sanders, Nikki Haley spar over poverty

[Uncle Joe]

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Sanders was among a group of lawmakers who pressed the Trump administration for a plan to address poverty following the release of the U.N. report, which, as the Los Angeles Times states, “examines inequality in the United States and condemns President Trump’s administration for pursuing high tax breaks for the rich and removing basic protections for the poor.”

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“It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America,” adding that the situation is far worse in many other countries,” Haley wrote. “The report categorically misstated the progress the United States has made in addressing poverty and purposely used misleading facts and figures in its biased reporting.”

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The report stated about the United States, “..its immense wealth and expertise stand in shocking contrast with the conditions in which vast numbers of its citizens live. About 40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and 5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty.”

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The Trump administration on Tuesday withdrew from the Human Rights Council, which Haley called runs “counter to human rights standards” and a “cesspool of political bias.”

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/06/22/vt-insight-bernie-sanders-nikki-haley-spar-over-u-s-poverty/724780002/

[murielm99]

1. Where is Bernie now,

if he is not in Washington doing Senate work? Is he at the border, with Democrats, protesting the child internment camps?

[Uncle Joe]

2. What does that have to do with the OP?

[murielm99]

3. Bernie seems to gallivant a lot more than some Senators.

My Senators, Duckworth and Durbin, don't do nearly as much traveling as Bernie. I wonder why this is necessary for him. His work habits and his travel have a great deal to do with this or any other OP about Bernie.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Do you believe the subject in the OP to be unworthy of Bernie's attention?

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The report notes that the US has highest child mortality rate of 20 rich countries (OPEC comparison). It also has among the highest child poverty rates in the developed world, at 21%. It also considered obesity rates, income inequality and incarceration rates.

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It found Trump's policies seem "deliberately designed to remove the basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship."

"Contempt for the poor in US drives cruel policies," Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told CNN.

"The Trump administration has brought in massive tax breaks for corporations and the very wealthy, while orchestrating a systematic assault on the welfare system," he said. "The strategy seems to be tailor-made to maximize inequality and to plunge millions of working Americans, and those unable to work, into penury.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/us/america-poverty-un-report/index.html

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016209145

I believe the CNN article to be a good and for many people enlightening read, it illustrates how literally the lives of tens of millions of Americans are at stake and this critical issue is most deserving of the American Peoples' attention.

So if any political leader wishes to "gallivant" on this issue, I will gladly help pay for the horse.

[murielm99]

5. Did I say it was unworthy?

I must have forgotten that I said that.

[Uncle Joe]

6. You could find nothing to say about the actual issue in the OP pro or con.

Just putting in a petty, vindictive dig against Bernie about an unrelated issue of which he has spoken out against on multiple occasions, which in turn you would know if you had just searched the Internet and all this in an attempt to change the subject from Bernie vs Haley on the critical issue of poverty in the United States and the U. N.s' scathing report which basically supports Bernie's assertions on this life and death issue.

[murielm99]

7. I will bring up another unrelated issue.

I was out canvassing for Democratic candidates today. What did you do to GOTV for Democrats this week or this month?

I didn't have time to search the internet for Bernie related articles. I am trying to get Democrats elected.

Bye. I won't be reading or replying to any more of your posts.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Still not addressing the actual issue in the OP but that's okay.

Peace to you muriel.