>>Now let's see: who helped rebuild western Europe after WWII? Oh yeah, it was America, wasn't it? I am sure that you are familiar with the Marshall Plan...
Of course. But think that through: the same nation that saw a duty to bring Germany and Japan back from the brink, more recently hasn't been providing healthcare for millions of its own poor. It has, however, created an aristocrat class that rivals the golden age in France just before Madame Defarge had her day. Need I go on?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
