Reply #2: "if you are poor, you don't have the right to prioritize your own survival." -USA to the world

[Peace Patriot]

This summation of our corporate rulers' attitude toward all but their boardroom cronies and the super-rich is both accurate and pithy. Bolivia and Ecuador are not alone. And we, the majority of people in the U.S., are equally scorned. Majority views on war, the environment, health care and many other important matters simply don't matter to those who have seized power over us through political corruption so vast that it even includes how our votes are counted (--basically, by one, far rightwing corporation--ES&S, which just bought out Diebold--with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code and virtually no audit/recount controls. Talk about "privatization"!)

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"When Bolivia and Ecuador refused to rubber-stamp the accord, the US government cut their climate aid by $3 million and $2.5 million, respectively. 'It's not a free-rider process,' explained US climate negotiator Jonathan Pershing. (Anyone wondering why activists from the global South reject the idea of 'climate aid' and are instead demanding repayment of 'climate debts' has their answer here.) Pershing's message was chilling: if you are poor, you don't have the right to prioritize your own survival." --from the OP