Monday, April 22, 2013

We're #34!

Thank God for Romania.

Recent rankings from Unicef put the United States 34th out of 35 developed nations for relative childhood poverty rates.  With over 20 million of our children living below the poverty line (and considerably farther below the poverty line than those children in the other 33 nations), my question would be:  where's the fucking outrage?

I know those numbers are a good day at the office for republicans, who figure it's the kids faults for not being born to parents who were trust fund babies.  But what about Democrats?  Where's the Democratic politician, who, like FDR and the New Deal, LBJ and the Great Society, says these numbers are an embarrassment and are antithetical to everything this nation stands for?  Who says we can do much better than that and actually make it a priority?

Where?

Peace,
emaycee

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