The Gilded Age
Current Events & Pop Culture
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Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture
Return to the Gilded Age
A blogger claims that the passage of the health care reform bill in December 2009 represents a throwback to the Gilded Age and the corruption of the era.
Excerpt
"Welcome to the new gilded age. The original hope behind the 17th Amendment - the direct election of senators - was to get the upper chamber out of the pocket of mega-industries that could buy and sell senators. So much for that, I suppose. This has to be one of the biggest giveaways to corporate interests in the nation's history."