Tracy
If you haven't read it, see if you can find a copy of Machiavelli's "The Prince" before your local library closes at 5pm ;-)
Otherwise buy it here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553212788/qid=1065794609/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/102-8192570-5411358?v=glance&s=books&n=507846The reason why you perceive that you loyal Americans get less consideration than disloyal outsiders, has been known since the 1500s when this book was written. Prepare to be horrified!
Regards
JR
"... 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
