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A solution to our financial problems: steal wealth from other nations

By / 50 Comments / 24 February 2009

Summary:  America has the greatest military force on Earth, a terrible swift sword.  We face hard times, perhaps for a few years.  Perhaps for longer.  Will we yield to the temptation to use our power to steal from other nations?  What would our forefathers think of such a decision? How will America react to hard …

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President Grant warns us about the dangers of national hubris

By / 1 Comment / 2 June 2013

Grant believed that the greed and hubris of our western expansion had a cost, which we paid in the Civil War. Excerpt from the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, U. S. Grant (New York, 1885), pages 22-24. Causes of the Mexican War Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated …

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