Nations Across The Globe Say America Is Becoming A ‘Third-World Country’ Under Trump

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  1. signalmankenneth

    signalmankenneth Well-Known Member

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    I have said this for years, America is becoming a third world country with abject poverty, homelessness, and gross inequality?!! Four more years of Trump and we will become the India of the west! If by an at Satan, Trump is re-elected, I will be living in
    Panama to maintain a decent standard of living?!!

    With the presidential election less than 40 days away, nations all over the world are in disbelief over the state of America under Donald Trump, saying the U.S. looks more like a third-world country than a global superpower.

    According to The New York Times, “Amid the pandemic and in the run-up to the presidential election, much of the world is watching the United States with a mix of shock, chagrin and, most of all, bafflement.”

    Despite Trump often inventing fake praise from world leaders, confidence in the United States has plummeted since he took office. His bungling of the pandemic and increasingly authoritarian rhetoric has made the world even more uneasy.

    https://www.politicususa.com/2020/09...der-trump.html


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    Well, from down here, I do not regard the USA as, or potentially becomming, a Third World country and I have seen no commentary (down here) even suggesting that. I can say I believe that, down here and elsewhere, there is widespread disbelief (to put it politely) that Team USA could even consider an arzehole like Humpty Trumpty as POTUS, let alone re-elect him. There is a genuine concern that he even has a remote chance. He (and his acolytes) is bringing the USA down into the gutter.
     
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    The link you provided does not have a single quote from a World Leader. There is a quote from an analyst no one ever heard of and a quote from an actor/activist no one ever heard about. Where are the quotes from World leaders?

    Now read the following and explain why you you posted this [deleted] which appears to be trolling in violation of forum rules. This PolitiusUSA does not even rise to the standards of fake news.

    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politicususa/

    PoliticusUSA has been criticized for utilizing sensational/misleading headlines that do not always match the reality of the story.

    Did you ever consider why the US dollar is still the World's reserve currency if we are descending to 3rd World status?

    Also, please explain why so many immigrants want to come to the US?
     
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    The USA was #1 in upward mobility and we are now #34 so yeah, comparing the USA to being on the road to becoming a third world country is not very far stretch. We are like the frog that slowly boils in the glass of water while never realizing wt* is happening until it's too late. The corporations are running the show and both parties are corrupted and no longer representing the will of the people. If it were not for the Democratic party abandoning their Progressive roots, we would never have had a monster like Trump squatting in The Oval Office. The GOP, Trumps crime ring enablers, are beyond redemption.
     
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    According to the US Census, our poverty rate has fallen 4.3 percentage points, from 14.8% to 10.5% in the last 6 years. Our current poverty line is $17,240 a year for a family of 2.
    Indonesia has a poverty rate of just 9.7%. That's great except their poverty line is at $300 a year. Personally, I think it'll be a while before 10% of our population lives on $25 a month.
     
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    Your source for this upward mobility statistic is what exactly?
     
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    Here are your Democratic party roots.
    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...31C1C4F4A0DA3021A1C431C&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
     
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    THE ROAD TO TRUMP BEGAN WITH REAGANOMICS & THE LOSS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS, ECONOMIST SAYS

    Donald Trump rise to the White House can be traced to President Reagan’s economic policies that “hollowed out the middle class.”

    That’s according to an economic historian who laid out a slew of sobering data on income, taxes, Chinese imports, debt and more that he connected to across-the-board tax cuts that began in 1980.

    “(Reaganomics) paved the way for Trumpism,” John Komlos, a former Duke economics professor and professor emeritus of economics and economic history at the University of Munich, said last week during a talk at the John Hope Franklin Center. “That to me is where our problems started, because it created a great amount of inequality.”

    Komlos cited “economic dislocations” in three Rustbelt states as one of the main reasons Trump won over voters who had gone for Barak Obama in 2008 and 2012.

    This dislocation includes low and stagnating wages, increasing indebtedness, downward social mobility, declining relative incomes “and the hopelessness accompanying them while at the other end of the income distribution the economy was simply booming.”

    https://today.duke.edu/2019/01/road-...economist-says


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    Where oh where could we be spending all that money?
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    (and who got Hervé Villechaize to make this graph? De Fence De Fence)
     
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    Do we have a 'B.S. propaganda' sub-forum for this trash thread?
     
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    As a young adult during the rule of Jimmy Carter and the associated double digit mortgage loans I never thought I would be able to buy a house. With the failed Carter energy policy and the associated odd/even gas rationing, lines at gas stations, fist fights at the pump, and the Carter administration printing up gas rationing coupons I though I would soon not be able to drive my car to work. Then along came Ronald Reagan who was not a perfect President, but he saved this country. When I read stuff like the above bashing Reagan I just have to shake my head.

    Komlos does have some interesting observations on the economy and various Presidents. Like this observation about Obama.

    As the recession sharpened, Obama entered into office with big promises of change, but he essentially continued many of the policies of his predecessor. He appointed Tim Geithner, a former Bush Jr. appointee, to be Secretary of the Treasury. Geithner now earns an estimated $5 million salary on Wall Street.

     
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    ~ If I were you I would be more concerned about Morrison selling out to China. Australia is heading down the same road the USA has been on for the last 40 years .
     
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    I'm sure that you wouldn't want to try and prove any one of those statements. I'll just do one for you for good faith.
    Greatest income inequality is determined by the one person with the highest income. Elon Musk had an income of almost $600 million last year and we have at least one person with a $0 income. Therefore, the US has the greatest income inequality in the world provided no one person has a higher annual income.
    Now, you prove the rest.
     
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    I am no fan of Morrison but we have to face reality. We are in SE Asia.

    Let's leave it there. This is about the USA.

    Happy to discuss Aussie politics on an appropriate venue.
     
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    Great! Let’s cut all foreign aid to all of these countries since, as a third world country, we obviously can’t afford to keep sending them money for nothing. :truce:
     
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    Which nations? Is there anyone saying it whose name we'd recognize?
     
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    The decline will continue until democrats are voted out.
     
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    The upward mobility issue is a DIRECT result of increased socialist policies being pushed by the left. The more you are reliant upon the government, the less upward mobility you have.
     
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    If the "facts" the OP has presented I question why any good solid democrat would choose to live in the US.
    International travel is still viable kids.
     
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    The first picture in you post is from New Jersey. The last Republican mayor of New Jersey was in 1902. It has been run by Democrats since then. No wonder it looks like a hell hole.

    The second picture in your post is Detroit.The last Republican mayor of Chicago was 1962.

    I just stopped there as it is glaringly apparent that your premise is nothing more than partisan hackery.
     
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    How can a a terribly sourced opinion piece be a Current event:)
     
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    Do you think by screaming into our faces with large, bold fonts you'll make your posts less laughable?

    Maybe, just a tad :D
     
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    It is not, it is still a Liberal's opinion.
     
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    The "poor" in this country would be "middle class" through the rest of the world. The rest of the world has been jealous and envious of the success of the United States and our standard of living since WW2 and before.
     
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    What this country has is a broken federal government and a broken political system. We have groups working hard to destroy both of these things. The private sector is just fine and nowhere near beginning a drop to third world status. We are still the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world by a long shot. If we could reduce federal government in size and incompetence and if we could work out a sensible political system, the public part of our society might become as good as the private part.

    Yes we have some poverty and have always had some poverty but it is tiny percentage of the population. Our society should take of those who cannot work. The poor that can work should get to work.
     
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