Kalau dilihat pemerataan kemakmuran, saya lihat Saudi Arabia justru lebih makmur dari AS meski GNP per capita di AS US$ 43 ribu sementara Saudi cuma 11,7 ribu/tahun. http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/rank/PNBH2.html
Apalagi di Saudi harga barang/makanan sangat murah dibanding AS (di AS biaya hidup tinggi). Sebagai bukti, ketika terjadi kurban, zaman dulu hewan kurban cuma digeletakkan saja tanpa ada yang mengambil. Sekarang dikalengkan dan dikirim ke luar negeri. Beda dengan di Indonesia yang orang sampai mati berdesakan berebut hewan kurban. Itu menunjukkan Saudi lebih makmur dari AS. Kenapa AS rakyatnya banyak yang super melarat, ya karena sistem Ekonomi Neoliberalis yang mereka terapkan sehingga kekayaan alam, dana, sembako dikuasai oleh para pemilik uang/kapitalis. Bahkan Sembako seperti Jagung saja dispekulasikan di Pasar Komoditas sehingga harganya menggila sebelum masuk pasar Tradisional. Semoga di Indonesia tidak begitu. === Belajar Islam sesuai Al Qur'an dan Hadits http://media-islam.or.id > >Dari: Tomi Satryatomo <wisat13@ >Judul: [JMP] Fwd: Poverty keeps growing in America but the press is almost >blind to it > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Barry Sussman <edit...@niemanwatch dog.org> >>Date: 2009/12/1 >Subject: Poverty keeps growing in America but the press is almost blind to it >To: wisa...@gmail. com > > > >Having trouble viewing this email? >Click here > >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ >Reporting the Collapse >> >Today: Poverty keeps growing in the U.S. but the press is almost blind to it >~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ >(Part of our series on "Reporting the Economic Collapse.") > >By John Hanrahan > >If Michael Harrington, author of "The Other America: Poverty in >the United States," were alive today and writing an update of his 1962 >classic, he would probably not need to change a word of the following >observation from that book: > >"...(T)he poor are politically >invisible. It is one of the cruelest ironies of social life in advanced >countries that the dispossessed at the bottom of society are unable to >speak for themselves. The people of the other America do not, by and >large, belong to unions, to fraternal organizations, or to political >parties. They are without lobbies of their own; they put forward no >legislative program. As a group, they are atomized. They have no face; >they have no voice...." > >Further, Harrington wrote, "society is creating a new kind of >blindness about poverty. It is increasingly slipping out of the very >experience and consciousness of the nation." > >And so it is for the most part today: Invisible in our political >discourse. Invisible in the press. Invisible in current discussions of >solutions to our Great Recession but all too real for growing numbers >of millions of Americans. The mainstream news media should acknowledge >an obligation to make these invisible Americans more visible. Perhaps >they could devote to the nation's poor -- and to solutions to poverty -- >even 10 percent of the news space and broadcast news time they give >week in and week out to the tiniest ups and downs of the stock market, >consumer spending, professional sports, and celebrities famous for >being famous. > >"It's not only the news media" that generally ignore poverty in >the United States, said Columbia University economics Professor Jeffrey >D. Sachs, in a wide-ranging interview with Nieman Watchdog. "It is not >on the political agenda. I doubt if President Obama has said much about >it. The word 'poverty' itself is hardly ever used. Sometimes political >leaders refer to the unemployed or low-income wage earners or >struggling families, but not poverty. We have no activism around >poverty. The political rhetoric is always built around 'the >hard-working taxpayer' and not poor people." > >While there may be some spot-news and feature coverage of >poverty-related issues in the mainstream press from time to time -- and >exceptional op-ed pieces from New York Times columnist Bob Herbert -- >Sachs said he sees little comprehensive news-page >focus on "the systematic realities of poverty and the tax and spending >policies" that need to be reformed to reduce poverty and income >inequality. "They zero it out," he said. > >Continue Reading Hanrahan's Essay > >Also >in this series: > >'Wall Street's excesses caused more deaths among children than the tsunami >four years ago' >>Economist Richard Parker says: 'Perhaps the greatest challenge to >liberal democracy in the 21st century lies in using the skills of >reconciliation to re-appropriate from the economic not simply the means >but the purpose of being human.' > >How much have today's wars weakened the economy? >>Jobs programs of the 1930s cut deeply into Depression unemployment and >World War II then put almost everybody to work, often at more than one >job. Not so with today's wars. Only the oil companies and military and >security contractors have made real gains from the conflicts in Iraq >and Afghanistan, says Harvard economist Linda Bilmes. > >Next: > >World poverty, American foreign policy, and the press >With >a few extraordinary exceptions, the press deals with world poverty by >ignoring it. 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