So now the stance is it's full of "reactionary assumptions" as opposed to "crazy assumptions"
Well... Life expectancy is declining in the US...
Clean air is an issue for a number of places in the US (just in SF we had unbreathable air for a couple weeks)... "Significant" might be an exaggeration.
Clean water... Hell, wasn't that a whole problem recently in Flint? And west Virginia I think? Again... "Significant" may be an exaggeration.
Healthy food.... Well...that's true. There are things called "food deserts"...
Adequate health care? Kind of a given...
Housing... Also true, maybe an exaggeration to say "significant".
Transportation.... This has been brought up frequently already regarding ID requirements for voting. There is a percentage of our US population which does not have access to transportation due to money. Again "significant" is probably an unnecessary word
Education? Hell... Don't pretend you don't complain about education on this very site. I don't know which level she's talking about, but I know I've seen people here complaining about education... Some of them complaining about the liberals changes to the education system.
So yeah... Other than her use of the term "significant" she's not wrong by saying these things are not available to some percentage of our population.
Significant itself is a throwaway word... It means different things to different people depending on the context. When you're looking at jewelry for the woman, a 20% cost difference may be significant. When looking at a car for yourself, that 20% may not be that significant a difference... 1% mortality rate with a pharmaceutical drug is "significant"...
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