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...return for this equal payment, America can guarantee no more than equal opportunity to each of its citizens. The government has no right to alter the socio-economic progression of the nation after the free-market ball has been set rolling. Once there is equal opportunity, the government cannot take into its own hands the responsibility of creating equal social outcomes...
...specific individual is brought into this world because of an accident of birth, and where each child ends up socio-economically cannot be used by the government for or against her. Judging an individual on a monetary level is as arbitrary as judging one on the color of one’s skin or one’s religious beliefs. Maybe more economically successful individuals were raised in wealthy towns, could afford to be sent to private schools and pay for expensive SAT tutors and so on. Some see this as unfair, and insist that these people should be forced...
...military had been occupying Russia in the wake of communism's collapse, the situation might have been quite different: Like post-Soviet Russians, Iraqis suddenly find themselves enjoying unprecedented freedom to speak their minds. But like those post-Soviet Russians, they also find themselves in the throes of a socio-economic catastrophe. In many cases their jobs have simply disappeared, gangsters are helping themselves to the nation's treasures and such basic services as electricity and potable water are suddenly no longer reliably available. The difference, is that the Russians had no one to blame; the Iraqis have...
Aaron R.S. Rudenstine ’03 constantly seeks ways to make his own big bang, and not just celestially speaking. Concerned about socio-economic inequality, the government concentrator plans to work on the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., after he graduates to get his “feet wet” in politics. “Politics [is] the one way that people can have immediate impact,” he says. “That possibility is extremely appealing to the extent that I can have an impact...
Even when discrepancies in socio-economic status and access to care were controlled for, the study showed that disparities in health care for minorities still exist, which Betancourt attributed to miscommunication during care...