US govt is pursuing her global ambition of
domination over entire earth and all out efforts are made to achieve this but
in that pursuance the American people are being ignored who had all the rights
to live a better life, they lack basic facilities in many fields but just to write
on few :
1. Health
Number of people
who lacked health insurance in 2010 climbed to 49.9 million.
9 million Americans have lost health insurance
during the past two years.
An additional 73 million adults had
difficulties paying for health care and 75 million deferred treatment because
they could not afford it.
2. Homeless Ameicans
About 2.3 million
to 3.5 million Americans did not have a place that they call home to sleep in
the night.
Over the past five years, the percentage of
singles arriving at shelters after living with family or elsewhere in the
community has jumped from 39 percent to 66 percent.
3. Poverty
46.2 million people
lived below the official poverty line in 2010, 2.6 million more than 2009,
hitting the highest record since 1959.
The poverty rate among women climbed
to 14.5 percent in 2010 from 13.9 percent in 2009, the highest in 17 years;
4. Food Insecurity
The percentage of
Americans who did not have enough money to buy food grew from 9 percent in 2008
to 19 percent in 2011
5. Unemployment
The New York Times
reported on December 12, 2011, that at last count, 13.3 million people were
officially unemployed and that 5.7 million of them had been out of work for
more than six months.
6. Violent victimizations
U.S. residents aged 12 and above experienced
3.8 million violent victimizations,
7.
Gender discrimination
According
to statistics, women are not fully represented in governments at all levels in
the United States, as women hold only 17 percent of the seats in Congress.
8. According
to the U.S. Department of Justice, the number of prisoners amounted to 2.3
million in 2009 and one in every 132 American citizens is behind bars
Due to US engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, US Govt is unable to concentrate
more on the welfare of peoples apart from earning bad reputation the war in Afghanistan
is far from over and it seems that the beneficiary of Iraq war is US rival Iran
and its just matter of time when these two states will join against US.
As of May 2012, debt
held by the public was $10.95 trillion or approximately 71% GDP, while the
intragovernmental debt was $4.76 trillion or approximately 29% GDP. These two
amounts combined are defined as total public debt outstanding and equal $15.7
trillion, roughly 102% of GDP.
Its
seems that US Govt is more interested in Building new warships costing Billions
of $ rather the helping the people and solving their problems for eg Littoral Combat
Ship units cost is 1.8 Billion US $, New
aircraft carrier $14 billion (including
research and development, and the actual cost of the carrier itself would be $9
billion), LPD 17 Unit cost US 1.7 B $, The United States is projected to spend
an estimated US$323 billion for development and procurement on the F-35
program, making it the most expensive defense program ever. The total lifecycle
cost for the entire American fleet is estimated to be US$1.51 trillion over its
50-year life, or $618 million per plane.
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