@Jpispretti That is one odd account you have there, tbh. I can't take this at face value.

@Jpispretti Yeah, and just hope you don't get sick ! Never mind about sex !!

I think Trump is great! I'm even beginning to like the things I don't like about him!

@puck61 Congrats? 👏🍻😇

@luckranger71 That's a sport! Thanks! 👍🇺🇲😄

@LegendofPeza I'm still the same person I always was, pezzza. I just don't jump of ridiculous bandwagons .

@LegendofPeza there have always been homeless. When I was young they were called hobo's. Some have been and still are war veterans, sadly. When people come to the USA without a job or money and within ten years of being here and working hard they are wealthy, it makes you wonder. Is it a choice for some?

@nudistsueaz Those stories - and I've observed them up close myself before, are first and foremost exceptions. Things don't - and can't work out that way for everyone, even everyone who works very very hard and lives virtuously/intelligently. Hard work is only the baseline in those examples - they also tend to involve a heaping dose of luck, or unique backgrounds (for example, a foreign PhD emigrating here with nothing has a different 10-year outlook than most), or simply extraordinary individuals. There are always some of those in every bunch.

There are a ton of factors involved in what sort of outcomes people see. Presence of exceptions doesn't mean that it's not important to take a hard look at the systems involved. Even though some people succeed against all odds, we should still figure out why those odds can be so long for people, often due to little fault of their own.

@Xuan12 There's more truth in that than most people might realise.

@MrBrownstone The question was about extreme inequality. Food stamps are one of the most basic ways of addressing that.

@LegendofPeza Exactly. Inequality during Obama’s administration.

@MrBrownstone there has always been poor mrs brownstone, it didn't start with obama and niether did food stamps. in fact obama cut the amount of food stamps allotted per person by upping the income brackets.

@TheProphet In this context, UN is mostly a vehicle, and Alston was here on the invitation of the federal government. He has had an interesting and fruitful career, and is a man worth paying attention to - he also knows a few things about poverty around the world.

Really, attacking the UN doesn't do a lot in dismantling his argument.

@TheProphet TROLL ALERT