Loading ...This story makes sense, except “past decade” is inaccurate, because the USA living standards were increasing from after the war and peaked during the 1960s, with a 1970 top for a lot of subjects. Trump was right about all the other countries taking advantage of us. He was frank or blunt, not afraid to expose and tell the truth and inform the public how they have been getting screwed. Its been a FIVE decade decline.
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The Social Progress Index,
which considers itself “the most comprehensive measure of a country’s
social and environmental performance independent of economic factors,”
determined that out of 163 countries, only the United States, Brazil and Hungary
had slid backward over the past decade. And though the declines were
small, the U.S. saw the largest reduction in terms of overall score.
“Most countries tend to move forward,” says Michael Green, chief
executive officer of the Social Progress Imperative, which puts out the
index. “To move backwards is a remarkably bad thing to do. … The fact
that the U.S. is in the negative space is deeply worrying.”
“The decline of the United States over the last decade in this index –
more than any country in the world – is a reminder that we Americans
face structural problems that predate President (Donald) Trump and that
festered under leaders of both parties,” opinion columnist Nicholas
Kristof wrote for The New York Times. “Trump is a symptom of this larger malaise, and also a cause of its acceleration.”
Comment re last sentence. Trump is not a cause of acceleration of falling living standards. If anything, things in the USA should finally start getting better after his changes. Especially for fixing the old one sided lopsided US totally leftest Supreme court. His input is probably going to fix the decades old one-sided lopsided US Congress soon too. And the tariffs on China are still intact.