Admonished by the UN for human rights violations, the US is now a 3rd world country.

[Hailto]

Yeah....like totally man, pass me the bowl.

[loopholbrook]

Just going to point out that if America decided to leave the UN it would collapse. That's not an opinion, but a fact. Though our country is failing in almost every way possible, we are still more powerful than any other country in the world. If we decided that we would like France, very few countries would dare fight against us, once again not an opinion, but fact.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by loopholbrook [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if America decided to leave the UN it would collapse. That's not an opinion, but a fact.

Originally Posted by George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

[fastboy21]

The report isn't really surprising nor terribly interesting (for popular news), which is why the main stream media doesn't put much time into reporting it.

The issues raised are that the US, compared to other "first rate" countries that it surpassed in infrastructure of all kinds during the 19th and 20th centuries, is now falling behind. The internal infrastructures in the US suffer from a funding gap needed to update the system and expand it at the anticipated rate of population growth. While this report focuses on water supply and sanitation, similar gaps are found in other segments of the infrastructure (bridges and road systems, for example).

Not surprisingly, the biggest gaps occur in the poorest areas of the US. Also unsurprisingly, the poorest areas of the US are also populated dis-proportionally with "minority" groups (Native Americans, African Americans, etc.).

There are serious issues in the United States regarding internal infrastructure. Nonetheless, I'd hardly call the US a "third world nation" (an antiquated term almost always used incorrectly today anyway).

[Hasbinbad]

fastboy21, that was a well thought out, eloquent critique on this issue.

I was, of course, speaking facetiously when I termed the US a third world country, but considering the wealth gap (a hallmark of underdeveloped countries) and lack of infrastructure, it's hardly facetious to say that we're headed the wrong way.

[Uthgaard]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shit is going to get worse, not better, and if we don't do something about it, the UN is going to be the least of our worries.

This is me worried. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I just told you how to get clean drinking in bulk water no matter what. Sure, there's shit in the water. There is in every country, industrialized or not. I depend on myself, not others. I don't really care if the water is crap. There are about 100 ways to make pure water even without a traditional water source.

This is what the UN does. It runs around writing papers on things to see where things stand. You're acting as if they singled out the US and said, human rights violators! When that's as ridiculous saying that a restaurant is racist because the health inspectors did a routine checkup.

[Kassel]

You want to see some 1st world country shame that would make you think its the 3rd world?

Google Attawapiskat

[to0p]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hi mainstream media! I didn't see you there. OH WAIT, YOU WEREN'T THERE AFTER ALL!!

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies...33-Add4_en.pdf

Play everquest you idiot and keep your communist/socialist crap to yo' self foo

[Harrison]

More retarded inaccuracies or flat out bullshit lol Do you just sit around doing drugs and whine all fucking day? Must be why you're a perma student and get nothing done in life. Waste of space.

[Harrison]

Post obviously directed at HBB.