Without defending the suffering endured by 19th century U.S. immigrants, the simple truth is that the conditions they survived spoke to very ambitious people willing to go through a lot just to make it here.

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The acquisition of property is the only real means to escape material deprivation without suffering the moral depravation of dependency.

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Individually and as a nation we have somehow acquired the thought bubble that we can keep writing bad checks without suffering the consequences.

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