Rise of Neo-Nazi groups in USA

[hello_10]

Has what to do with the subject of the thread?

Perhaps time to shut it down.

And you think that this means something? This means nothing, because you, like a typical moron you are, are using your own limited experience that is meaningless, on whole nation.

Winners Vs Victims

one day the contexter of president of US, Mr Romney, also explained this issue as below. the Winners who are winning, mainly the migrants who have high qualifications from a high ranked US's/Western university too and hence on high paid jobs, while the locals are the Victims who need social security+medical security at the price of around $1.5 trillions every year. in Australia i found the Australian newspapers labeled it as 'hate crime' against those migrants who are in high income group, pay high taxes and give support to run industries/medicines, develop technologies as part of research team etc.......

thats how Winner Vs Victim competition going on in US as below:

Romney offers no apologies for "victims" remarks

WASHINGTON — Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of all Americans "believe they are victims" entitled to extensive government support. He added that as a candidate for the White House, "my job is not to worry about those people."

At a hastily called news conference late in the day, Romney offered no apologies for his remarks, and when he was asked if he was concerned he had offended anyone, he conceded the comments weren't "elegantly stated" and they were spoken "off the cuff."

Romney to campaign donors: Obama voters "dependent," see selves as "victims"
Full coverage: Election 2012

President Obama's campaign quickly seized on the video, obtained by the magazine Mother Jones and made public on a day that Romney's campaign said it needed a change in campaign strategy to gain momentum in the presidential race. Romney aides were already working behind the scenes to calm dissension in the GOP ranks and reassure nervous donors and consultants about the state of a race some Republicans worry may be getting away from their nominee.

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney is shown saying in the video posted online by the magazine (which you can see on the left). "There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."

"Forty-seven percent of Americans (working age people) pay no income tax," Romney said.

Romney offers no apologies for "victims" remarks - CBS News

this is how these Victims, local 'kings', have destroyed US's/Western economies as below, with around $810 billions for Social Security, and around $750 billions for free Medical, making US to borrow at least $1.2 trillions every year this way

=> U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

 

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Why Americans think it is right to own guns?

After mass shootings killed 12 moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado, and six Sikh worshippers in Wisconsin this summer, it may seem a little bizarre that many Americans insist people have the right — an inalienable right — to buy a gun that can spit 60 bullets per second.

Yet it is such a deep part of the culture that no event, not these murders or the more ordinary 11,500 other firearm-related homicides that take place every year in the US, not to mention that 17,500 gun-related suicides, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, can dislodge the notion that the ownership of more than 300 million guns makes us safer.

The belief in guns is so strong that solution to gun-related murders is often imagined to be more guns. For example, even after a horrific campus shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 that resulted in 32 deaths, some politicians pointed to the university's campus-wide gun ban as a contributing factor, on the theory that the problem wasn't that the unbalanced student came to school with two semi-automatic weapons but that students and faculty weren't themselves armed. Nor were they alone: a national student group of over 15,000 members formed asking to overturn laws restricting the use of concealed weapons on campus.

The Right Stuff

The legal foundation of this madness is the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

That might not sound like a blanket right to bear arms, and it wasn't intended as such. Fearful of European-style standing armies, the authors of the amendment believed that citizen militias were the only way to prevent tyranny, according to historian Saul Cornell, writing in his 2006 book A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. Cornell concluded in his study that they saw the amendment as more of a guarantee of a civic obligation than a personal right.

In fact, it's so hard to read as a personal right that it wasn't until 2010 that the Supreme Court successfully overcame the text and with no equivocation ruled that the second amendment meant people had a personal right to keep and bear arms, unconnected to military service.

The truth is that the right to gun ownership is much more securely fixed in our hearts than in our laws — and in recent years, a triumph of the well-organised and well-funded pro-gun lobby. In 1959, when Gallup first asked the question, 60% of people favoured a general handgun ban. Asked recently, it's fallen to 26% — a record low. True, more people support a ban on semiautomatic weapons — 53% — but gun ownership remains high: 47% say they have a gun in their house.

How did this happen? There is a residual love of guns that is a legacy of pioneer days and among rural people, a reflection of an attachment to hunting. Certainly, some people do hunt — a few kids I grew up with out in Oregon hunted. My best friend in junior high would always gnaw on homemade venison for his lunch — salty gray-green stuff that had the consistency of rope.

Every year, a hunters' club offered a hunter's safety course in the evening, after school, which were lectures you needed to pass to get your hunting licence — but the course always sounded a bit boring, like becoming a Boy Scout, and hunting itself was more a hobby some families had, like going to church, not a subject everyone thought about or talked about.

But hunting is not really what's behind the still-growing love of guns. President Obama, as candidate Obama in 2008, in a rare moment of accidental candour once described the residents of dying industrial towns in the Midwest as bitter people who "cling to guns or religion". Although he later recanted, he was right to a certain extent. At the same time, he also missed the point: in the US, guns have become a kind of religion in themselves. 'Power'

In May, 24-year-old James Holmes, a failing University of Colorado student, started buying guns. He bought four guns at Denver-area gun shops, including a 12-gauge Remington 870 Express Tactical shotgun, a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 semi-automatic rifle, and a Glock 22 handgun.

Around the same time, Holmes also began ordering bullets and body armour online — reportedly over 50 packages, according to newspaper accounts. On July 20, he bought a ticket for the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises Again, the latest Batman saga. Then about 20 minutes into the movie, went out to his car, girded himself up with his arsenal, came back and started shooting.

Clint Eastwood once said he made his violent movies to give people hope, imagining a young guy who has a job, maybe cleaning swimming pools, and has no sense of hope for the future.

Why Americans think it is right to own guns? - Economic Times

Blow to Obama as US Senate defeats gun control bill

The US Senate has voted against new legislation to expand background checks for gun purchasers, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's hopes of gun control reform after the school shootings at Sandy Hook in December.

An angry Obama, surrounded by shooting victims and families of victims, said the powerful gun control lobby "willfully lied" to the American people.

"All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington," the president said. "Who are we here to represent?"

Several amendments to a gun control bill went to the Senate floor, including bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, but the key proposal was a bipartisan compromise calling for background checks to be mandatory for any firearms sales conducted online or at gun shows.

Fifty-four Senators voted in favour of the proposal to 46 against, but the amendment required 60 votes to pass. The poll was presided over by US-President Joe Biden, who has led the Obama administration's lobbying effort to secure new firearms legislation.

Among those present to watch the defeat were families of those killed in mass shootings at Sandy Hook; at Aurora, Colorado; at Tucson and at Virginia Tech. The result was greeted by a cry of "Shame on you!" from the public gallery.

The defeated amendment was crafted by Republican Senator Patrick Toomey, and Democrat Joe Manchin, who addressed a near-empty Senate chamber prior to the vote. Mr Manchin, a hunter and gun owner who was previously awarded an "A" rating by the National Rifle Association (NRA), criticised the gun lobby for having spread misinformation about the proposal. This week the NRA reportedly spent $500,000 (£328,000) on internet advertising in a bid to crush the bill. The ad, which ran on news websites, suggested the legislation would have no effect on crime.

Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, voiced support for an assault weapons ban, despite his own longstanding and close relationship with the NRA, saying Second Amendment activists had used "shameful scare tactics" to derail the bill. In an emotional appeal to the Senate before the vote, Mr Reid said: "The American people have a long, long memory. To vote against something that 90 per cent of the American people want, the American people aren't going to forget about that."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a leading gun control advocate, described the defeat as a "damning indictment of the stranglehold that special interests have on Washington".

A version of the bill may yet be revived in the future, Senate leaders suggested, given public support for new gun control measures.

Blow to Obama as US Senate defeats gun control bill - Americas - World - The Independent

 

[ericliang313]

You know, a sense of white nationalism is indeed sweeping the West...but hasn't India been fascinated by Hitler as well?

 

[hello_10]

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[average american]

Nazi like groups pretty well got their teeth pulled the courts ruled they were liable for any actions resulting from their promoting racism or bigotry.

United Klans of America

In 1987 the SPLC successfully brought a civil case, on behalf of the victim's family, against the United Klans of America (UKA) for the 1981 lynching of Michael Donald, a 19-year-old black man in Mobile, Alabama, by two of the UKA's members.[39] Unable to come up with the $7 million awarded by the jury, the UKA was forced to turn over its national headquarters to Donald's mother, who then sold it and used the money to purchase her first house.[40]

[edit] White Aryan Resistance

On November 13, 1988 in Portland, Oregon, three white supremacist members of East Side White Pride and White Aryan Resistance (WAR) beat to death Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college.[41] In October 1990, the SPLC won a civil case on behalf of the deceased's family against WAR's operator Tom Metzger and his son, John Metzger, for a total of $12.5 million.[42][43] The Metzgers declared bankruptcy, and WAR went out of business. The cost of work for the trial was absorbed by Anti-Defamation League as well as the SPLC.[44] Metzger still makes payments to Seraw's family.[45][dead link]

[edit] Church of the Creator

In May 1991 Harold Mansfield Jr, a black war veteran in the United States Navy, was murdered by a member of the neo-Nazi "Church of the Creator" (now called the Creativity Movement). SPLC represented the victim's family in a civil case and won a judgement of $1 million from the church in March 1994.[46] The church transferred ownership to William Pierce, head of the National Alliance, to avoid money being paid to Mansfield's heirs; the SPLC filed suit against Pierce for his role in the fraudulent scheme, and won an $85,000 judgment in 1995.[47] The amount was upheld on appeal and the money was collected prior to Pierce's death in 2002.[47]

[edit] Christian Knights of the KKK

The SPLC won a $37.8 million verdict for Macedonia Baptist Church, a 100-year-old black church in Manning, South Carolina, against two Ku Klux Klan chapters and five Klansmen (Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Invisible Empire, Inc.) in July 1998.[48] The money was awarded stemming from arson convictions in which the Klan burned down the historic black church in 1995.[49] Morris Dees told the press, "If we put the Christian Knights out of business, what's that worth? We don't look at what we can collect. It's what the jury thinks this egregious conduct is worth that matters, along with the message it sends."[50] According to The Washington Post the amount is the "largest-ever civil award for damages in a hate crime case."[50]

[edit] Aryan Nations

In September 2000 the SPLC won a $6.3 million judgment against the Aryan Nations from an Idaho jury who awarded punitive and compensatory damages to a woman and her son who were attacked by Aryan Nations guards.[6] The lawsuit stemmed from the July 1998 attack when security guards at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho shot at Victoria Keenan and her son.[51] Bullets struck their car several times then the car crashed and an Aryan Nations member held the Keenans at gunpoint.[51] As a result of the judgement, Richard Butler turned over the 20-acre (81,000 m2) compound to the Keenans who then sold the property to a philanthropist who subsequently donated it to North Idaho College, which designated the land as a "peace park."[52] Because of the lawsuit members of the AN drew up a plan to kill Dees, which was disrupted by the FBI.[53]
Southern Poverty Law Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

plus there has been a lot of individual law suits against hate groups resulting in multimillion dollar rewards.

Hate Groups Can Be Hit In Pocketbook - Chicago Tribune

Civil plaintiffs only have to show it was more likely than not that the defendant incited the violence. In criminal cases, the standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Since the 1980s, victims have won several multi-million dollar judgments against hate groups whose members have committed violence:

- Scott-McLaughlin and a team of lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights brought a 1982 suit against a Ku Klux Klan group in Chattanooga, Tenn. They won a $500,000 verdict for the families of five African-American women who were murdered by Klan members.

- In 1987, the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama won a $7 million verdict against the United Klans of America after two Klan members from Mobile, Ala., lynched Michael Donald, a 19-year-old black man.

 

[average american]

I am waiting to see if the people of Boston sue the Mosque that the bombers attended.

http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/...d-by-Boston-bombing-suspects-has-radical-ties

Mosque attended by Boston bombing suspects has radical tiesBOSTON

— The mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon double bombing has been associated with other terrorism suspects, has invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Boston and is affiliated with a Muslim group that critics say nurses grievances that can lead to extremism.

Several people who attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., have been investigated for Islamic terrorism, including a conviction of the mosque's first president, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, in connection with an assassination plot against a Saudi prince.


Its sister mosque in Boston, known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, has invited guests who have defended terrorism suspects. A former trustee appears in a series of videos in which he advocates treating gays as criminals, says husbands should sometimes beat their wives and calls on Allah (God) to kill Zionists and Jews, according to Americans for Peace and Tolerance, an interfaith group that has investigated the mosques.


The head of the group is among critics who say the two mosques teach a brand of Islamic thought that encourages grievances against the West, distrust of law enforcement and opposition to Western forms of government, dress and social values.


"We don't know where these boys were radicalized, but this mosque has a curriculum that radicalizes people. Other people have been radicalized there," said the head of the group, Charles Jacobs.


Yusufi Vali, executive director at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, insists his mosque does not spread radical ideology and cannot be blamed for the acts of a few worshipers.


"If there were really any worry about us being extreme," Vali said, U.S. law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and Departments of Justice and Homeland Security would not partner with the Muslim American Society and the Boston mosque in conducting monthly meetings that have been ongoing for four years, he said, in an apparent reference to U.S. government outreach programs in the Muslim community.

 

[hello_10]

Nazi like groups pretty well got their teeth pulled the courts ruled they were liable for any actions resulting from their promoting racism or bigotry.

United Klans of America

In 1987 the SPLC successfully brought a civil case, on behalf of the victim's family, against the United Klans of America (UKA) for the 1981 lynching of Michael Donald, a 19-year-old black man in Mobile, Alabama, by two of the UKA's members.[39] Unable to come up with the $7 million awarded by the jury, the UKA was forced to turn over its national headquarters to Donald's mother, who then sold it and used the money to purchase her first house.[40]

[edit] White Aryan Resistance

On November 13, 1988 in Portland, Oregon, three white supremacist members of East Side White Pride and White Aryan Resistance (WAR) beat to death Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college.[41] In October 1990, the SPLC won a civil case on behalf of the deceased's family against WAR's operator Tom Metzger and his son, John Metzger, for a total of $12.5 million.[42][43] The Metzgers declared bankruptcy, and WAR went out of business. The cost of work for the trial was absorbed by Anti-Defamation League as well as the SPLC.[44] Metzger still makes payments to Seraw's family.[45][dead link]

[edit] Church of the Creator

In May 1991 Harold Mansfield Jr, a black war veteran in the United States Navy, was murdered by a member of the neo-Nazi "Church of the Creator" (now called the Creativity Movement). SPLC represented the victim's family in a civil case and won a judgement of $1 million from the church in March 1994.[46] The church transferred ownership to William Pierce, head of the National Alliance, to avoid money being paid to Mansfield's heirs; the SPLC filed suit against Pierce for his role in the fraudulent scheme, and won an $85,000 judgment in 1995.[47] The amount was upheld on appeal and the money was collected prior to Pierce's death in 2002.[47]

[edit] Christian Knights of the KKK

The SPLC won a $37.8 million verdict for Macedonia Baptist Church, a 100-year-old black church in Manning, South Carolina, against two Ku Klux Klan chapters and five Klansmen (Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Invisible Empire, Inc.) in July 1998.[48] The money was awarded stemming from arson convictions in which the Klan burned down the historic black church in 1995.[49] Morris Dees told the press, "If we put the Christian Knights out of business, what's that worth? We don't look at what we can collect. It's what the jury thinks this egregious conduct is worth that matters, along with the message it sends."[50] According to The Washington Post the amount is the "largest-ever civil award for damages in a hate crime case."[50]

[edit] Aryan Nations

In September 2000 the SPLC won a $6.3 million judgment against the Aryan Nations from an Idaho jury who awarded punitive and compensatory damages to a woman and her son who were attacked by Aryan Nations guards.[6] The lawsuit stemmed from the July 1998 attack when security guards at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho shot at Victoria Keenan and her son.[51] Bullets struck their car several times then the car crashed and an Aryan Nations member held the Keenans at gunpoint.[51] As a result of the judgement, Richard Butler turned over the 20-acre (81,000 m2) compound to the Keenans who then sold the property to a philanthropist who subsequently donated it to North Idaho College, which designated the land as a "peace park."[52] Because of the lawsuit members of the AN drew up a plan to kill Dees, which was disrupted by the FBI.[53]
Southern Poverty Law Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

plus there has been a lot of individual law suits against hate groups resulting in multimillion dollar rewards.

Hate Groups Can Be Hit In Pocketbook - Chicago Tribune

Civil plaintiffs only have to show it was more likely than not that the defendant incited the violence. In criminal cases, the standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Since the 1980s, victims have won several multi-million dollar judgments against hate groups whose members have committed violence:

- Scott-McLaughlin and a team of lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights brought a 1982 suit against a Ku Klux Klan group in Chattanooga, Tenn. They won a $500,000 verdict for the families of five African-American women who were murdered by Klan members.

- In 1987, the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama won a $7 million verdict against the United Klans of America after two Klan members from Mobile, Ala., lynched Michael Donald, a 19-year-old black man.

 

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Nearly half of Americans don't pay income tax

WASHINGTON - Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of all Americans "believe they are victims" entitled to extensive government support. He added that as a candidate for the White House, "my job is not to worry about those people."

At a hastily called news conference late Monday, Romney conceded the comments weren't "elegantly stated" and that they were spoken "off the cuff."

President Barack Obama's campaign quickly seized on the video, obtained by the magazine Mother Jones and made public on a day that Romney's campaign conceded it needed a change in campaign strategy to gain momentum in the presidential race.

"There are 47 per cent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney is shown saying in a video posted online by the magazine. "There are 47 per cent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."

"Forty-seven per cent of Americans pay no income tax," Romney said.

Romney said his role "is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Romney's campaign did not dispute the authenticity of the video, instead releasing a statement seeking to clarify his remarks. "Mitt Romney wants to help all Americans struggling in the Obama economy," spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said. "He is concerned about the growing number of people who are dependent on the federal government."

About 46 per cent of Americans owed no federal income tax in 2011, although many of them paid other forms of taxes. More than 16 million elderly Americans avoid federal income taxes solely because of tax breaks that apply only to the elderly, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Obama's campaign called the video "shocking."

"It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a statement.

The private remarks are the latest in a string of comments from the multimillionaire Republican businessman whom Democrats have criticized as out of touch. During the primary campaign, Romney insisted that he was "not concerned" about the very poor, and said that his wife drove a "couple of Cadillacs." Aides to Obama's campaign said the latest video would help them continue to make the case that Romney doesn't understand the concerns of average Americans.

Voters say they believe Obama has a better understanding of their problems and concerns than Romney does. A CBS/New York Times poll showed 60 per cent of likely voters said Obama understands the needs and problems of people like them, while 37 per cent said he did not. For Romney, the same question found that 46 per cent felt he did understand people's needs, 48 per cent said he didn't.

The remarks came at a closed-door fundraiser that Mother Jones reported occurred after Romney had clinched the Republican nomination. To protect the identity of the person who provided the remarks, Mother Jones blurred out the video and did not provide the date or location of the fundraiser. Romney formally clinched the nomination May 29 and formally accepted it last month at the Republican convention in Tampa.

Mitt Romney: Nearly half of Americans don't pay income tax, 'believe they are victims'

US citizens leaving the country to avoid stiff tax bills

America's rich are renouncing their citizenship at record levels — just to get richer.

Startling new data from Uncle Sam show that defections by Americans are expected to double this year, largely to avoid any stiff tax bills resulting from the proposed 55 percent hike on the rich — as well as the likely expiration on Dec. 31 of the Bush era tax cuts.

As many as 8,000 US citizens are projected by immigration officials to renounce in 2012, or about 154 a week, versus 3,805 in 2011, or about 73 per week.

"High-net-worth individuals are making decisions that having a US passport just isn't worth the cost anymore," said Jim Duggan, a lawyer at Duggan Bertsch, which specializes in protecting assets of the wealthy.

"They're able to do what they do from any place in the world, and they're choosing to do it from places with much lower tax rates," he said. :ranger:

"Some are philosophically disgusted at the course our country is taking in all kinds of ways. They're making a strong protest of, 'Enough is enough,' " said Duggan. "But largely it's an economic decision."

There's a catch to reaching tax nirvana. To renounce citizenship — and thus escape any future US taxes forever — a citizen must buy that unique freedom with a a one-time exit tax of 15 percent on the fair-market value of all assets — including real estate, securities, businesses and personal belongings — less their basis price.

"Many see it as a cheaper way to get out from under any tax liabilities on future wealth, while their assets have lower values during the weak economy," he said.

The step before dumping citizenship is, of course, finding a new homeland and getting citizenship there.

Duggan said scores of tax-haven nations and island regimes around the world eagerly welcome disenchanted rich Yanks with quick citizenship, business deals and protections from the US Justice Department and the IRS.

Among the popular spots: Australia, Norway, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Guernsey and Antigua.

There is one way to have your cake and eat it, too, Duggan said.

The US possessions in the Caribbean — St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix — give a 90 percent tax credit to US citizens living there at least 183 days a year, resulting in an effective tax rate of just 3.5 percent, he said.

Americans renouncing US citizenship to avoid stiff tax bills - NYPOST.com

 

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Over a quarter of US kids on food stamps, under-50s dying young
(Reuters / Jessica Rinaldi)

American health is in decline as new data finds that one in four US kids are on food stamps as of fiscal year 2011 and the younger generation is more prone to death and poorer health levels compared to their counterparts in other developed nations.

Almost 20 million children out of 73.9 million under the age of 18 were in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, in 2011, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture and US Census Bureau.

Moreover, children accounted for 45 per cent of aid receivers.
(because of fcuk and run culture of US, leaving these Single Mother kids on the mercy of Welfare.)

The number of people using the food stamp program has been on a rise, since 2009 about 15.5 million more individuals have been added to SNAP.

Latest data released for the month of October 2012 shows the drastic increase with one in 6.5 Americans using SNAP, while in the 1970s only one in 50 were part of the program.

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions argues that US is not working towards any real solutions for the problem.

"It has become sadly clear that Agriculture Secretary Vilsack wishes to make welfare part of the normal American experience, with no regard for social or economic consequences," Sessions told The Daily Caller.

Americans have lowest probability of surviving till 50

Also, new evidence revealed that younger generation of US citizens (those under 50) die earlier and have poorer health than their counterparts in other developed nations, according to a new study of health and longevity in US.

US men ranked last in life expectancy among the 17 countries in the study, and American women as second to last.

The 378-page report by a panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council was based on a broad review of mortality and health studies and statistics and included other countries such as, Canada, Japan, Australia, France, Germany and Spain.

More specifically, US male deaths before the age of 50 account for two-thirds of the difference in life expectancy when compared to their counterparts in other countries and about one-third of the difference for females.

Americans have also a higher rate of death from guns, car accidents and drug addiction.

"Something fundamental is going wrong," chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University Steven Woolf told the New York Times. "Something at the core is causing the US to slip behind these other high-income countries. And it's getting worse."

The rate of firearm homicides was 20 times higher in the US than in the other countries, according to the report.

The US also had the second-highest death rate from the most common form of heart disease and the second-highest death rate from lung disease.
Americans even had the lowest probability of surviving till the age of 50.

The study attempts to explain such low results by highlighting American disjointed healthcare system with a large number of uninsured citizens and high levels of poverty in the country as possible reasons for the outcome.

These realities have taken their toll on the US annual rankings of World's Happiest Countries as US has slipped from 10th to 12th place for the first time in the six-year history of the Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index.

The US is now behind Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Scandinavian countries, including Norway, Denmark and Sweden, which ranked top three in the index.

Over a quarter of US kids on food stamps, under-50s dying young

in post #142, we have news that US's citizens are having the highest guns to population, as many of them don't want to clean toilets etc

here we have minimum wage of US as below:

Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


here we find minimum wage at around $8 for the US, means around $320 per week for a 40 hours per week job. which means for hardly around $20,000 per year before taxes (considering the fact that so low paid workers have to work on weekends also )...........

and here, how much does $350 per week means for, (considering a $400 per week job before tax)? then here, the cheapest food in Sydney we find at at least $10 on a chinese shop, if you don't buy water. means around $140 per week this way. minimum $3.2 for medium size coffee..... i do remember, when I moved to Perth in 2006, i was living in YMCA lodge in beginning as I didn't have a professional job that time, and it required around $180 per week for the room I had that time, with shared bathrooms etc. and YMCA was the lodge where we can't bring a guest on night also,

i mean, $400 per week isn't enough to survive in US/UK/Australia, if you want "The Minimum Decent Life", otherwise we do know, how we find 4 to 6 beds rooms, people living like shiits....... having a car etc does mean that you and your partner both need to work, if you dont have a professional job......

today i was saying that US/UK/Australia is good for only those who have qualification like me, Master of Engineering and Master of Engineering Management from a university ranked around 13-14 among the 5 star rating of QS Global etc, so that you have at least a $100k+ job on your hands.... my friends with 7-8 years experience have minimum $250k+ package right now, and this way only US/Australia is a very good place to live, like how we find Indians so high paid in US, UK... I also remembered, those 20% population of US, Australia who are wealthy enough, are in fact pretty good people, while those 50% people, who are themselves shiits, are now "racists" ................

at the same time, is it really easy to get even the minimum wage, which is around $8 per hour in US, UK???? don't surprise, if you dont have a professional job then you may fall in this category also as below

Working for nothing – the truth about low pay in the UK | Society | The Observer

BBC News - Five million paid less than living wage, says KPMG

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Thread should be closed, posts should be deleted, hello_10 should be blocked from forum. Nothing of value has ever been contributed by that member.

 

[Yusuf]

Give a a good reason to open this thread. The posts are irrelevant and displays personal enmity against the US.