Jim Webb
Jim Webb is running for president of the United States in 2016.
Webb, a Democrat, served as a U.S. senator from Virginia in 2007-13. He served as the first Assistant Secreatry of Defense for Reserve Affairs and Secretary of the Navy in the Ronald Reagan administration.
Webb is a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a Marine Corps infantry officer until 1972 and saw action in the Vietnam War, for which he was awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts.
Webb was born in Saint Joseph, Mo. He also has a law degree from Georgetown Law Center, Washington, D.C. He has written fiction and nonfictions books and won an Emmy award for his 1983 PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut. He frequently writes opinion columns for many publications.
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"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.
"We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913."
"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world."
"The stock market has almost tripled since April of 2009."
The U.S. has "5 percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s known prison population."
The poorest counties in the U.S. are in Appalachia and "happen to be more than 90 percent white."
In 1968 "the average corporate CEO made 20 times the average worker’s pay. Today that multiple is about 350."
President Obama budget request for veterans is "more than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in 1980, when the veterans population was larger by a…
"Ronald Reagan raised the national debt 18 times."
The war in Iraq was a major factor in blowing "the top off the price of oil."