How America is a failed nation.
by ESLaPorte
Blog of the Interantional Christian Democrat
http://blog.christian-democrat.net
The United States of America is home to 37 million poor people, a population
that is the size of Canada. More than 2 million people in America are under
criminal justice control. American leaders themselves are openly corrupt and
despite the numbers of poor in America, many of the neo-con ilk claim that
"the economy is good."
American leaders can think of only themselves and their re-election
campaigns. The truth is that the economy is not good for the majority of
people in America. Those who are poor receive little or not help, in fact,
being poor is stigmatized as a moral problem. The poor, especially the
homeless, are viewed as morally corrupt and in need of stigma. This
stigmatizing of the poor (which includes the long-term unemployed and
socially excluded), helps provide the rational behind cuts in programs,
including student aid. Part of the problem is that there are two Americas,
one that has a "good economy" for the upper 20% of incomes and those of us
on the bottem 50%.
This upper 20% of incomes also owns the radio outlets that put out the
notion that "all is well in America." The radio outlets also help drive the
stigma of the poor, as well as gear up the pubic to accept federal funding
cuts for the American poor. The lack of aid for the poor, including the
continued drive by radio talk shows to stigmatize the poor, should be viewed
as oppression of 37 million poor people.
American government policies that result in lack of food security, housing
and health care for the poor should be view as equal to state abuse of its
own citizens. Policies that result in homelessness, lack of jobs, lack of
health care and food insecurity - and especially lack of economic
opportunity - should be viewed as abusive behavior by the American
government on its own people. The willful neglect of the citizens of a
nation should be viewed by the international community as abuse. The type of
abuse the American government is giving to it own people in dirty little
spades.
In that, America's stigma and neglect of 37 million of it own people should
be viewed and abusive. The continued defaming of poor people on right wing
talk radio should be viewed as part of the abuse, much like the Jews were
demonized in Nazi Germany. If we continue to accept and swallow the notion
that it is good governance that 37 million people should have their needs
neglected, then we accept tyranny and America is no better than Slobodan
Milosevic's Yugoslavia or Saddam Hussein's Iraq. America is indeed a failed
state.and look for this failure of America to get worse and worse everyday.
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