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2019-12-06 Iraq
Still in Streets, Iraqis Say Problem is Poverty
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Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 Can't build skyscrapers from manure?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-06 05:51||   2019-12-06 05:51|| Front Page Top

#2 poverty is a synonym for lack of civilised behaviour and an inferior culture
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-06 05:58||   2019-12-06 05:58|| Front Page Top

#3 No matter what 'ism' is applied, there will always be one percenters. It's the nature of the man beast. Throw in what BP wrote to add to the compounding.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-06 06:18||   2019-12-06 06:18|| Front Page Top

#4 U'm not sure they'll ALWAYS be such an unusual concentration of wealth in untaxed title and so little in overtaxed earnings.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-06 06:53||   2019-12-06 06:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Ahh, ghost employees were a big problem in Boston back in the '70s.

Seemed like half the city workforce had a different under the table full time job.
Posted by AlanC 2019-12-06 07:08||   2019-12-06 07:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Corruption always impoverishes a nation. The US is on its way to the same problem if the trash isn't taken out soon.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-06 10:51||   2019-12-06 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Corruption is a more specific form of rent-seeking.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-06 11:53||   2019-12-06 11:53|| Front Page Top

#8 I admit I haven't been paying close attention what with all the rest of the world on fire, but I wonder how much of this is protests against government corruption and how much is traditional Iraqi Sunni vs Shia.
And yes, I realize those two categories are not mutually exclusive.
Posted by SteveS 2019-12-06 12:44||   2019-12-06 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 one in five of its people live in poverty and youth unemployment stands at one quarter

errr... that's actually not all bad, relative to most other countries.

What's the youth unemployment rate in southern Europe? I'd be surprised if it's not above 25%.

What's the poverty rate outside of US boomtowns? In California, the inland / Central Valley and north Coast poverty rate is close to 40%.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 12:49||   2019-12-06 12:49|| Front Page Top

#10 United Way's US poverty report data are here
Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 12:52||   2019-12-06 12:52|| Front Page Top

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