Ignazio Silone Quote – The Equality Of All Men
“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain–the equality of all men.” – Ignazio Silone
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Mickey Kaus Quote – We’ve Always Had Rich And Poor
“We’ve always had rich and poor. But money is increasingly something that enables the rich, and even the merely prosperous, to live a life apart from the poor. And the rich and semi-rich … increasingly seem to feel that they deserve such a life, that they are in some sense superior to those with less. An especially precious type of […]
Read moreInequality: Why the poor are getting poorer
Why is America a nation of growing inequality? The yawning economic and cultural gap between the well-to-do and the working class—now wider than at almost any point in our history—has academics and pundits searching for explanations. Now, a new Harvard study provides an illuminating—and “horrifying”—insight into what’s going on. The affluent and the working classes, the study found, are raising […]
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