MB Civic

By Eugene Robinson | Friday, November 23, 3007 | The Washington Post

“…We’re not who we think we are.

The American self-image is suffused with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the United States as a land of unlimited possibility, not so much a classless society but as a place where class is mutable — a place where brains, energy and ambition are what counts, not the circumstances of one’s birth. But three new studies suggest that Horatio Alger doesn’t live here anymore….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201090_pf.html