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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: TimF who wrote (85050)7/22/2018 5:26:39 PM
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Any study that actually makes such a claim (assuming it directly does and it wasn't distorted headlines about it), would reflect extreme sloppiness at best, if not extreme bias or even outright dishonesty.
...but to do so without considering that those levels represent very different levels of adjusted and non-adjusted income and general economic well being is sloppy, and to do so after considering that fact, but not mentioning it is dishonest.

Tim,

Thank you for your fulsome and candid reply. I take it that your primary concern is with the description of the UN report and the phrase "which ranked poverty in the U.S. alongside some of the poorest areas in the world."

I will respectfully disagree that the primary intent of the report was to dishonestly compare US poverty with the poorest areas of the world. I think this was a subjective opinion rather than an objective assessment based on absolute income levels with or without compensating factors. For me the term "alongside" allows some individual interpretations of the data.

However, actually calling the report dishonest would be like me saying that Katelew was being dishonest about California allowing undocumented persons to vote in California instead of the city of San Francisco. I really think she was offering a subjective opinion about the precedent of doing this, and not necessarily offering an objective view of the underlying facts. When she said that Obama did nothing to reduce the deficits or reduce the unemployment rate, she was expressing her personal subjective feelings about the man. I didn't consider her to be dishonest, just gravely mistaken on the facts.

I think the issue of poverty in the US compared to the rest of the world is an important topic that we can discuss again at some point. If you are still posting after I retire (if not sooner), I will attempt to pick up this issue again.

Kind Regards
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