Debilitating poverty……open sewage……poor education…..sounds like most Third World nations, right?
Maybe so but in this case it is some of the stuff a UN investigator on poverty found in rural Alabama……yes, right here in the US of A……
A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world.
“I think it’s very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I’d have to say that I haven’t seen this,” Philip Alston, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.
The tour through Alabama’s rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States. So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
This in the “greatest” country in the world…….how pathetic is this?
That is it for me for today…..same time tomorrow….same blog…..be well….be safe……chuq
And yet, those people will gladly vote for Roy Moore and other oligarchs who will help plunge them even further into poverty….
that is the conundrum…….lack of education who knows what the problem is….chuq
I have often said that America sends far too much money to foreign crap holes when there is plenty of need, want, poverty and despair right here at home … in Appalachia, on Indian Reservations — the inner cities — it is rampant — and everybody turns a blind eye — and those who do not turn blind eyes rake off the contributions to their charitable causes for big salaries for administrators and other corrupted idiots — and Roy Moore doesn’t have a damned thing to do with any of it …
He will be voting on bills that effects these issues so he has everything to do with it