Wandering the Streets

In “Millions Homeless in US: Report,” China Daily details an interesting take on economic conditions in our country:

BEIJING – Millions of homeless people wander around streets in the United States, according to a Chinese report on the US human rights record released on Friday.

The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011, released by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, said that about 2.3 million to 3.5 million Americans did not have a place that they called home to sleep in the night, and the number of homeless families grew by 20 percent between 2007 and 2010.

Over the past five years, the percentage of singles arriving at shelters after living with family or elsewhere in the community has jumped from 39 percent to 66 percent, the report said.

There is a simple explanation for this, according to China’s largest English language newspaper:

The problems concerning human rights were the reflection of the US ideology and political system that ignored people’s economic, social and culture rights, and the financial crisis was far from being the sole reason, the report said.

Of course, we know this is not true.

Right?