I always respect other people opinions, but social inequality is expressed through the unequal distribution of wealth in society, and is the expression of lack of access to housing, health care, eduction, employment opportunities, and status. It is the exclusion of people from full and equal participation in what we, the members of society, perceive as being valuable, important personally worthwhile and socially desirable. This discussion of inequality in America is a taboo subject because of the national reluctance to examine how the class system of the United States operates on a day-to-day basis, we do not learn from our schools or media how a privileged but organized minority of Americans is able to amass a disproportionate share of our national wealth and to transmit that privilege across generations to create a permanent economic, political, and social elite class. On crime,there are valid statistics that prove crime is increasing among adolescents, that more men commit crimes than women, and that urban areas suffer from higher rates of crime than their rural counterparts. Further, there is more crime in the United States than in any other industrial nation. What could possibly explain these phenomenon? it’s the economy! More exactly, it is because of the class stratification manifested by capitalism in a society that continues to over-emphasize materialism as the gap between rich and poor continues to widen. We don’t liberate neither protect the world but we protect by force, interventions and crime our big business interest. We don’t give away anything , we take as much as we can. The Monroe Doctrine is the bedrocks of expansionism and intervention which has caused so much misery, death and impoverishment for millions across Latin America, below you find a small sample of our protection:
http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/resources/interventions.html
Expressed or not, what you are referring to is economic inequality, not social inequality. On the fritz, in all fuzziness, you are mixing the two.
America has the lowest rate of lack of access to housing, health care, education, employment opportunities, and status on the planet. I have regularly worked with the homeless, and have been homeless, and they, almost unanimously prefer their condition, and will only move out of their condition if they have housing given to them with maid service for good measure. It is rare to find an honest desire for a better life amongst the homeless. They simply cannot be moved from their morass, and would rather live under a bridge than deal with the realities of life. Put them in the public spotlight, coddle them a little with the possibility of receiving something for nothing and they will do the dog and pony all day long to let the World know how abused they are and how unfair the World is to them, if the World would only give them a chance. Their problem is a social problem, not an economic problem, and all the money in the World will not repair the problem
No one suffers a lack of health care in America but that they refuse it themselves, and all the free health care in the World will not change that. This is exampled everywhere national health care is currently in place, it has the same problems, and is breaking the back of those nation's markets as homelessness, welfare, unemployment and crime rates and a general lack of productivity all have risen because of it. France's conservative government is now working to turn that around, they're trying to find some way to pull people out of their we don't have to produce morass. In France, Doctors are paid less than I earn as a union worker; and nurses are living far below our poverty levels, they are like store clerks here. Yet their national health care only pays two-thirds of their health care, and anyone wanting more must purchase more while everyone is taxed at nearly 70% of their income. 20% unemployment, because they do not have to work. The governments of Europe had to build corporations like Airbus to create jobs, and that corporation would not exist in a free market. They live in a vicious fascist state of government intervention at taxpayer expense requiring more government intervention and they have not improved anything about their existence because the homeless are still on the streets, the criminals justify their actions. Ironically, everywhere on the planet, the biggest contributor to people dropping out of society is the burden government places upon them - they work and receive little for it, never able to get ahead by their own wit.
Education in America is suffering because of this same problem of people thinking you can throw tax money at it and fix it. Well, we throw huge sums of tax money at the problem, and keep increasing the poor results in education. We build huge concrete monoliths to our children's future, locating them on prime properties with a view, staff them with people earning far more per year than a doctor in the EEU, and still turn out a tattooed, pierced, pornographic populace that does not understand where the Mississippi River is located much less the function of their reproductive organs other than that they produce unfortunate results. Then we cover their nearly $20K annual public transportation bill and most of the costs for them to go to university, building Billion Dollar campuses so they can then inflict their perversity upon others. No wonder "Christian" schools are springing up everywhere and parents are willing to not only pay their taxes for the profane schools, but then work twice as hard to pay for their own schools to preserve their children's hearts and minds from the Borg.
Opportunity includes the ability to fail based upon one's own character, or it isn't opportunity at all. Stealing by force of law from one man to cover another's bad character is not providing opportunity.
When a house is afire, we call the fire department. Most of the time they are only able to contain the fire and keep it from spreading too far. They do not rebuild your house for you. If they find that it was you who set the fire, they bill you for their efforts, they bill you for the damage you have done to your neighbor; your insurance company sues you for their loss, your bank continues to demand their mortgage payments, and they put you in jail for a nice long time for causing the problem in the first place. We have built a Uniform Commercial Code to cover this kind of stuff, which includes Fire Codes and Building Codes to protect ourselves from one another. I like it like that.
When we develop a Uniform Commercial Code for the human body, along with Health and Building Codes covering every aspect of when, where and with whom we reproduce, every aspect of our behaviors, and even the death process; then I might see having universal health care of a kind which attempted to put out the fire burning within us, but certainly not to rebuild our body with transplants or implants. You'd still need insurance to rebuild, you'd still need to make your payments, and you would most certainly need to face jail time (the glue factory might be better) if you caused the damage to your body in the first place. That's economic recovery dude. Status is earned, not stolen.