U.N. Ambassador Dismisses Report on Extreme Poverty in America in Letter to Sen. Sanders
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON, June 21 In a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) following his call for the Trump administration to uphold international human rights treaty obligations and present Congress with a plan to alleviate poverty, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley dismissed a non-partisan U.N. report on extreme poverty in America as politically motivated and misleading.
It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America, Haley wrote to Sanders on Thursday. The Special Rapporteur wasted the UNs time and resources, deflecting attention from the worlds worst human rights abusers and focusing instead on the wealthiest and freest country in the world.
The U.N. report prepared by Special Rapporteur Philip Alston highlights the contrast between the few Americans with immense wealth and the more than 40 million people living in poverty, including millions living in what the report describes as Third World conditions of absolute poverty.
Sanders responded to Haleys dismissal of the U.N.s report.
You are certainly right in suggesting that poverty in many countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi is far worse than it is in the United States. But what is important to note about poverty in America is that it takes place in the richest county in the history of the world and at a time when wealth and income inequality is worse than at any time since the 1920s, he wrote to the ambassador. As it happens, I personally believe that it is totally appropriate for the UN Special Rapporteur to focus on poverty in the United States.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/un-ambassador-dismisses-report-on-extreme-poverty-in-america-in-letter-to-sanders
Uncle Joe
(58,593 posts)Thanks for the thread Donkees.
Voltaire2
(13,291 posts)Whatever she did to convince the msm to give her a reputation as some sort of sensible republican was obviously fraud.
Donkees
(31,552 posts)Donkees
(31,552 posts)atreides1
(16,125 posts)"...deflecting attention from the worlds worst human rights abusers..." You mean like Trump's new pal, the man who executes people with an anti-aircraft gun, or stuffs his face as his people starve to death!!!
Haley is nothing, she was offered that position because Trump wanted a man in the governor's mansion, and put Nikki in a job he can fire her from when it suits him!!!
Haley, Nielsen, and Sanders...are nothing more then Trump's women...because they realize that the positions they hold are as far as they are going to get...and they would do and say anything to keep their jobs!!!