The Promised Land in Arrears: America's Converging Crises and the People Left Behind

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Scott Mollette

The Promised Land in Arrears

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America's Converging Crises and the People Left Behind

Scott Mollette

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English

Scott Mollette
07 March 2026

History of the Americas; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Globalization

Series: 1

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America is not collapsing uniformly. It is failing selectively - and the failures land hardest on the people with the least capacity to absorb them.

Drawing on more than twenty years inside the VA disability system and the analytical framework of former covert CIA officer Andrew Bustamante, The Promised Land in Arrears examines what the data actually shows about America's trajectory: a $39 trillion debt with no political constituency for correction, a Social Security trust fund with a documented depletion date, a generation of veterans compensated for their diagnoses but not for the cost of living with them, and an institutional architecture losing legitimacy faster than it can be restored.

This is not a partisan book. Both parties are implicated. It is not a doomsday book. The author does not believe the country is finished. What he believes - and documents - is that the system has spent four decades concentrating reward upward while pushing risk down, and that the cost of that arrangement is being paid by specific people whose names and faces the political conversation rarely includes.

Written from the Philippines, where distance clarifies what proximity conceals, The Promised Land in Arrears is the honest accounting the current moment demands.

Includes a practical appendix for veterans on SMC tiers, secondary service connection, bilateral factor, and reading your rating decision.

By: Scott Mollette
Imprint: Scott Mollette
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 95g
ISBN: 9798233617300
Series: 1
Pages: 72
Publication Date: 07 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active