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

[Hasbinbad]

I might have to adjust my prejudices concerning Texas. Damn you.

[Uthgaard]

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

Like how we're just swimming in funds for infrastructure right now right? Like how discretionary spending isn't just a piggy bank for the air force, but actually is spending of our tax dollars used with discretion.. RIGHT??

When was the last time you drove on a road in the United States bro?

Getting to the right answer isn't about responding with what you're sure is a witty response, that really has nothing to do with the topic.

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

Yes Uthgaard, the United Nations investigated the United States of America's indigent populations so that it could write us an essay. ..for what? ..college credits?

Go back here, and answer your own questions. That means you need to do a little bit of research on the UN and what it does, why it does it, and at what intervals it writes routine assessments of every country, and then reconsider whether the writing of a routine assessment equals your ridiculous accusations. Hint: You'll find that by your logic, every country in the UN is third world.

[Hailto]

The UN is under the illusion that anyone in America besides hasbin cares what they have to say, that's cute.

[booter]

I also care what the UN has to say /shrug. It's sort of an important thing, what with an increasingly connected world. International cooperating is what it's about. Borders will have to go away at some point in our history (maybe not for a few centuries, but as a species we really ought to start thinking long-term).

[Hailto]

Why would we have to have a one world government at some point in our history? Where is your logic?

[Hasbinbad]

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

Why would we have to have a striation of governments at this point in our existence? Where is your logic?

fix't

[booter]

I'm not saying we have to, I'm just saying it's likely inevitable from an evolutionary standpoint if we are to survive. This isn't some right vs left "one world gubment" conspiracy talk. At some point, we'll likely have to all come together and stop thinking of each other as nationals and citizens and start thinking of each other as fellow humans. Do I think that will happen in my lifetime? No.

[Hasbinbad]

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

Getting to the right answer isn't about responding with what you're sure is a witty response, that really has nothing to do with the topic.

You are over nine hundred thousand percent wrong. It has everything to do with the topic. If you read the report, you would see that the UN calls into serious question our plan and ability to move beyond nineteenth century technology as far as clean water distribution and sanitation for our most marginalized people. This is an infrastructure problem (you know, roads and aqueducts and things?), and our inability to meet our own needs as it pertains to infrastructure while simultaneously borrowing money from yellow people to kill brown people to the total tune of trillions of dollars over time is one of my central issues with this government, and the reason why this particular subject garnered my interest in the first place.

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

Go back here, and answer your own questions. That means you need to do a little bit of research on the UN and what it does, why it does it, and at what intervals it writes routine assessments of every country, and then reconsider whether the writing of a routine assessment equals your ridiculous accusations. Hint: You'll find that by your logic, every country in the UN is third world.

I mean, I see your point Uth, I do know what the UN is and what it does in a very general sense. That being said, I would be surprised if you could find that the UN told a majority of "1st world countries" that they had low confidence in a plan or ability to implement a basic human right. If that is true, it makes us - AT THE VERY LEAST - "towards the bottom of all developed countries as far as the sustainability of basic human rights for their citizens."

Spin that however you want. Do your own research. I know (based on 1,000 swabs in five different communities in the bay area, part of a biological assay in my biotech program) that with our current water deployment technology, bacterial swabs of the vast majority of water outlets will yield viable colonies of E. coli, S. marcescens, S. aureus, and S. Enteriditis, among other nice little critters (the four listed were on ~90% of the 'clean' water outlets tested, with a smattering of other organisms found here and there). I know (based on hella hella documentaries and YouTube videos, and hella independent media reports / interviews) that in certain places in this country, corporations are allowed to rape nature in such a way as to make the ground water fucking flammable.

Let alone what fucking chemical impurities we allow into the "clean" water system at large.. Can you say "excreted in the urine?"

You've really got to be fucking kidding me dude. I know you're an educated person, but you're arguing the impossible. 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.

[Hailto]

Implying the UN doesn't have political motives and actually gives a shit about the drinking water in the ghetto, stop being so naive.

[booter]

Stop being so [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

There's corruption at every level, but that doesn't have to stay the same either.

Again, it's called long-term thinking and I guess requires some understanding of history and science.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln8UwPd1z20