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joshcryer

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7. UNICEF, Safe Drinking Water:

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 10:18 PM

Mar 2012

United States: 100

Mexico: 88

Source: http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/about/sgreport-pdf/03_SafeDrinkingWater_D7341Insert_English.pdf

Access to Electricity: http://www.iea.org/weo/electricity.asp

31 million people in Latin America have no access.

I've lived in hell holes with roaches, forest roaches, that could just come in the cracks of my house in deep southern Alabama. But I had air conditioning, clean drinking water, and electricity. And it was subsidized.

I say this coming from a very poor background (bottom 1%, currently in the bottom 30% or something like that).

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Poverty and propaganda [View all] nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 OP

Your niece needs to see the poverty... ananda Mar 2012 #1

The American myth is fully ingrained. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #3

America's poor don't matter. Zalatix Mar 2012 #2

It's not that, we go out of our way to make them nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #4

Many politicians, in fact, talk about poverty at great length with no ill effects on their careers. Brickbat Mar 2012 #5

Nadin, what kind of social programs do the poor of Mexico have access to? Things like food stamps, jwirr Mar 2012 #6

My question is, why did the poor rarely ever rebel? Zalatix Mar 2012 #8

Yes, many did die because of a combination of harsh treatment and the tropical heat/disease. As to jwirr Mar 2012 #11

I guess the Bolshevik Revolution was an anomaly in history Zalatix Mar 2012 #13

Not totally, the French Revolution was pretty much the poor against the rich also. jwirr Mar 2012 #14

Right now they cover them with the segura popular nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #9

That is good that they at least have something in place. Their population alone would make it hard jwirr Mar 2012 #12

UNICEF, Safe Drinking Water: joshcryer Mar 2012 #7

What I am saying is something else nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #10