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the united nations children's funds or as it's called unicef just released a
ranking of developed countries by the percent of children who live in poverty
out of the thirty five countries that were ranked
the united states
was second from the last
we were number thirty four to thirty five
in terms of child poverty
that is disgraceful
the only country there was worse than us
was romania
unicef defines uh...
poverty in this case as living in a household that earns less than half
of the national media
more than one and five american children fall below
and who's above us on that list
everybody entire industrialized world virtually all of europe plus canada
australia new zealand japan
yada yada yada
the picture looks even worse when you examine just how far below the relative
poverty line
the children tend to fall so the unicef report look at something
it calls the child poverty gap
which measures health for the average poor child falls
below the relative poverty line
and it does this by measuring the gap between the relative poverty line
and the average income of poor families
so in this area
the united states also score
second to last with the average poor child in the u_s_ living in a home that
makes thirty six percent less
than the relative poverty line
only italy
had a wider gap
so basically what that measure means
is that or poor
or really poor
specifically are
poor cages or really poor
solo while that this is going on by the way the sequester includes one hundred
billion dollars in further cuts
to what's called non-defense discretionary spending that's the
portion of the budget
that funds many programs for the poor
so they're taking a meat cleaver that and it doesn't look like they're gonna
reinstate any of those things then allow those cuts to go through now let me
pause there for a second
because
uh... horrendous
twist but that she showed you
how misstated the priorities of washington are right
uh... part of the all bomb a budget
this is something that i didn't even realize i saw an article about this a
few days ago i was amazed at this article income at earlier because it's
incredibly important
as part of the old bomb a budget now remember there with the progressive
caucus budget banana
the um... senate democrats are
but had a more conservative budget
than the progressive caucus in the house
and they don't bother releasing even more conservative budget then that
senate democrats
and then of course the republican budget
domain
polaris right ridiculous
uh...
in oman the budget
hw reinstated
the sequester cuts
that went to the pentagon
so remember the sequester was half pentagon cuts
cuts to the poor and a dime non-defense discretionary spending
like this they were talking about here
in his budget secretly a little provisions there spattered throughout
the entire thing
he reinstate ps
the spending for the pentagon
not for this benefit power that's still cut
but for the pentagon any make sure they don't get their cuts
why because god forbid the people who funded obama's campaign and funded the
politician's campaign
well they'll get their stuff cut because they bought the politicians
but a pork in the middle of clevelanders chicago or new york city
kansas wyoming appointed anywhere they don't have a lobbyist fighting for them
so was the end result well there as they get cut out of the budget no problem
at all
it was awake over that it was a awake a sleep over that
but uh... god forbid the pentagon take a cut
i mean we only have nine hundred military bases around the world we need
more obviously
we only spent six trillion dollars in iraq afghanistan of course we need
to spend more overseas when you crazy