You got downvoted, but here's what the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights said about the US: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/Dis

You got downvoted, but here's what the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights said about the US: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533 http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?Ne... "3. The United States is one of the world’s richest, most powerful and technologically innovative countries; but neither its wealth nor its power nor its technology is being harnessed to address the situation in which 40 million people continue to live in poverty." "6. American exceptionalism was a constant theme in my conversations. But instead of realizing its founders’ admirable commitments, today’s United States has proved itself to be exceptional in far more problematic ways that are shockingly at odds with its immense wealth and its founding commitment to human rights. As a result, contrasts between private wealth and public squalor abound." As an American I can't agree more.