James Lardner
James Lardner
James Lawrence Lardnerwas an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War...
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Suddenly the already wealthy were reaping all the benefits. While other stories held our attention, that trend continued for 30 years.
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These inequalities have happened in other countries - imperial France or some banana republic - but for 200 years we were the land of opportunity.
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We have entrusted our health care system to for-profit companies.
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While the United States remains a spectacularly rich country by any standard, we are drifting toward a Third-World-like distribution of our riches. For tens of millions of Americans, the alternative to unemployment has become a dead-end job that doesn't necessarily pay enough to cover basic living expenses.
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The only group growing faster than millionaires these days is the uninsured.