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America's poor becoming more destitute under Trump: U.N. expert
Yahoo News ^ | 3 Jun 2018 | Stephanie Nebehay

Posted on 06/03/2018 8:13:19 AM PDT by mandaladon

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>UN
>expert

Pick one


41 posted on 06/03/2018 9:06:49 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yeah. Uhh. They could get a job.


42 posted on 06/03/2018 9:07:54 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: mandaladon

Does being retired count as being unemployed and poor?


43 posted on 06/03/2018 9:15:33 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: mandaladon

A Hate America UN report. Basically bullshit!


44 posted on 06/03/2018 9:26:40 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: mandaladon
Obama had the weakest economic recovery since WW II and Trump gets the blame. Trump cuts the deduction for Federal taxes for State taxes paid which affects the very rich and Trump is responsible for income inequality.

I'm really looking forward to the parallel reports from the UN about income inequality in China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia etc etc. How long do I have to hold my breath ?

Incidentally, how is income inequality measured. Is it on the basis of pre-tax income? Post tax income? Pre-tax income plus non-taxable government welfare payments ? Post tax plus non-taxable welfare benefits ?

45 posted on 06/03/2018 9:27:16 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: mandaladon
U.N. expert

Oxymoron

46 posted on 06/03/2018 9:28:58 AM PDT by KevinB (I do not care for that Obama fellow.)
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To: vette6387
I generally like Australians. But I guess they contribute their “$hit people” to the UN, just like most countries.

They have just as many nutty socialists as we do.

47 posted on 06/03/2018 9:30:05 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Leaning Right

This guy must be the life of any party that he attends……


48 posted on 06/03/2018 9:47:39 AM PDT by mikrofon (+Memorial Day+ BUMP)
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To: mandaladon
Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty

What is that?
Another name for a skunk who uses figures from BEFORE Trump was in power to bash Trump using Nancy Pelosi talking points?
It's time for Trump to DEFUND whatever the heck UN agency this quack is working for.

49 posted on 06/03/2018 9:49:20 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: mandaladon

Vaguely.....


50 posted on 06/03/2018 9:51:06 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (.)
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To: Leaning Right

How much are they paying this Trump hating “rapporteur” to spew out garbage reports?


51 posted on 06/03/2018 9:55:35 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Leaning Right

“Personally, I would not trust the opinion of anyone who has the title “special rapporteur”.”

Personally, I doubt I could refrain from punching anyone in the mouth who had the title “special rapporteur”.

“Allow me to introduce you to Fagola McKochsucker, special rapporteur...”

(Smack!) (Thud.)


52 posted on 06/03/2018 10:03:05 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: SmokingJoe

> How much are they paying this Trump hating “rapporteur” to spew out garbage reports? <

It’s not “they” but “we” who are paying him.

I’m actually in favor of the UN as a place for nations to get together and talk things through. There is little harm in that. But I am not in favor of all those UN agencies. They stick their noses into everything. And they love to preach to the West, and to the US in particular.

The UN as a meeting place? OK. The UN as a busybody Big Brother? Nope.


53 posted on 06/03/2018 10:05:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: jospehm20
We should cut our UN contribution to match China’s.

We should cut our UN contribution to ZERO, and excrete that misguided body from within our borders.

54 posted on 06/03/2018 10:05:47 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: mandaladon

When they’re truly desperate, they’ll respond to one of those “help wanted” signs in almost every business that has an open door to hiring entry-level employees serious about entering the workforce.


55 posted on 06/03/2018 10:11:12 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: mandaladon

Even so, in an economy that is booming, where anyone that wants a job can find one, it is only natural that those that refuse to have a job (or are homeless drug users) will have a larger margin between them and anyone with a job.

So it is true, from a distort the stats point of view.e


56 posted on 06/03/2018 10:28:05 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: mandaladon

However, the data from the U.S. Census Bureau he cited covers only the period through 2016, and he gave no comparative figures for before and after Trump came into office in January 2017.

POP Quiz! Who was President in 2016?

This is another example of an idiot at Yahoo pretending to be a journalist with more Fake News.


57 posted on 06/03/2018 10:40:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump does what is good for Americans. Then, the world gets their pants in a knot, too bad!)
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To: mandaladon

More obama news coming out years later to blame Trump for. They didn’t learn from the old pictures they put out last week. They continue to double down. They are so pathetic.


58 posted on 06/03/2018 2:04:15 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: EdnaMode

And by decree the rain could only fall after midnight.


59 posted on 06/04/2018 5:51:12 PM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: mandaladon

U.N expert - oxymoron.


60 posted on 06/04/2018 7:48:33 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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