Currently the US is now over $15 trillion in debt. [1] The national debt has now gotten to the point where it is larger than US government revenue and is now unpayable. In response to this crisis, many in government have been arguing for austerity measures, yet they have not been using that actual term, rather there has been an argument for deep cuts in social spending, with one example being Paul Ryan’s budget proposal which targets mainly the poor and elderly. A debt crisis may very well lead ...
Updated 06-26-12 at 03:29 PM by Mr. Invisible
After the Civil War, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Constitutional amendments were passed which aided newly freed slaves in being equally treated under the law, or so the story goes. The fact of the matter is that slavery was- and still is- completely legal in the United States and not only that, but it took on a much different form. The institution of slavery changed as instead of having the direct enslavement of blacks with an entire apparatus that had to be created to keep slaves in their condition, ...
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