Gambling Away Our Futures
By Adam Platt
One of the less-discussed aspects of the economic meltdown is that it exposed the fraudulence of how most of us are securing our futures. Whereas most first-world nations (Canada, Australia, the U.K., France, Sweden, etc.) provide for their citizens’ primary and secondary educations, lifelong health care, and retirement pensions, the U.S., in large measure, denies any responsibility thereof.





