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World News See other World News Articles Title: American decline: Open pools of raw sewage in the richest country in the world American decline: Open pools of raw sewage in the richest country in the world Rania Khalek is an American journalist, writer and political commentator based in the Middle East. Published time: 12 Feb, 2018 15:32 © Shannon Stapleton © Reuters As the wealthy continue sucking the country dry, the question now isn’t if the US will cease to provide a decent standard of living for its people. Rather it is how many people will be sacrificed on the way down. In America, the richest nation in the world when measured by raw GDP, children are getting sick from living by open pools of raw sewage. This was one of many shocking findings by the United Nations late last year, following a two-week investigation into extreme poverty in the US. The UN report was issued last December by a team of investigators who visited California, Alabama, Georgia, Puerto Rico, West Virginia and Washington DC. “The United States is one of the world’s richest, most powerful and technologically innovative countries; but neither its wealth, nor its power, nor its technology is being harnessed to address the situation in which 40 million people continue to live in poverty,” wrote Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He continued, “I met with many people barely surviving on Skid Row in Los Angeles, I witnessed a San Francisco police officer telling a group of homeless people to move on but having no answer when asked where they could move to, I heard how thousands of poor people get minor infraction notices which seem to be intentionally designed to quickly explode into unpayable debt, incarceration, and the replenishment of municipal coffers. I saw sewage-filled yards in states where governments don’t consider sanitation facilities to be their responsibility, I saw people who had lost all of their teeth because adult dental care is not covered by the vast majority of programs available to the very poor, I heard about soaring death rates and family and community destruction wrought by opioids, and I met with people in Puerto Rico living next to a mountain of completely unprotected coal ash which rains down upon them, bringing illness, disability and death.” The sewage-filled yards were found in poor areas like Lowndes County, Alabama, where many people cannot afford to install septic tanks, causing sewage to pool by their homes. This untreated waste creates the potential for all kinds of diseases. In Lowndes, it has led to the proliferation of hookworm, a parasitic disease of the intestines commonly found in the world’s poorest developing countries. The discovery of third world levels of poverty and disease in the richest and most powerful country in the world, shocking as it may be, is only part of the story. The UN findings are in keeping with the downward spiral of America. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
If government wants to stop it, they can but they will not. Because government does not care about the people only the rich people.
I have a buddy who lives out here in the boonies. There are six of them living in a trailer. He told me he had to put in a small septic tank since there is no central sewer out there. You can't have that raw sewage running out in the open, especially with kids and dogs nearby. He had a few coon dogs out there and goes coon hunting. He keeps the pelts in a deep freeze and when the price goes up he sells them. He owes me $100 for the deep freeze. I imagine I will see that $100 when hell freezes over. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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