Paul M. Cook wrote:

> Sounds about right. And quite representative of that age where the rich
> could poke gold forks at vast amounts of lavishly prepared food and waste
> almost all of it while below them in stearage were 2000 immigrants who
were
> coming to the New World to escape starvation. The Gilded Age indeed.
>


Believe it or not I read recently that the gap between rich and poor is much
wider now than it was then....I guess it's less "conspicuous" now because
most folks aren't living on the edge of starvation like many were back "in
the day"...and now the gilded folk are called "Republicans".

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Best
Greg