Also, the rank and file soldiers at Valley Forge were never allowed to vote in the new country for which they fought since they were not property owners. So much for government of the people.

The writer says that ”We conquered those faraway blue mountains, reached the sea, expanded north and south without any thought other than being the best was our manifest destiny.”

He fails to mention that we also had no thought for the race of people who already occupied that land who were slaughtered as part of our manifest destiny. So much for their faith in the basic goodness of man.

The author makes several references to the fact that there is much taxing of the productive people and giving it to the unproductive ones.

His arithmetic is as weak as his history. He would have his audience believe that the rich are being taxed and punished out of existence for the benefit of those who are not productive.

In 1983 the top 1% of US households owned 33.8% of the net worth of the country and the next 19% owned 47.5%. This puts the top 20% owning 81.3% of the country’s net worth and the remaining 80% of American households owning only 18.7%. That was in 1983. As of 2007, the figures are the top 1% owns 34.6%, the next 19% owns 50.5%, with the remaining 80% of American households owning just 15%. And all indications are that the year 2009 will be an even larger increase for the top 20%.

How can anyone who looks at the actual statistics claim that there is a redistribution of wealth from rich to poor? There is redistribution of wealth, but it goes from the bottom 80% to the top 20%.

More than half of the money that the U.S. Government pays directly to individuals, the welfare of which the writer speaks, goes to individuals whose other income is above the national average.

Those payments directly to individuals whose other income is greater than the national average along with defense spending equals almost 70% of the U.S government’s spending.

The United States spends more on its military than all of the other countries in the world put together. I repeat, the United States spends more on its military than all of the other countries in the world put together. We spend more on military weapons than the top fifteen other countries in the world combined.

Contrary to what the author has tried to convince readers, the United States is not a welfare society; it is a warfare society.