Uncle Sap

The U.S. has helped fight the world's hot wars with considerable cost in lives and treasure. We have poured resources into rebuilding the battlefield results thereof. We have fought and won the Cold War. We have mortgaged our future to be the policeman to the world. We have played along with this world-government charade which became nothing more than a feather bed for the world's bureaucrats ... accomplishing little.

We have become the world's reserve currency at the considerable competitive disadvantage t to our industry. We have entered into trade deals that emasculated our once-powerful mercantilism. We have been an extraordinary benefactor to the poorer nations of the world. We have been the leading innovative force for over a century only to see our rights to this innovation stolen. We have shown the world, when they have chosen to watch and listen, the superiority of a free capitalist society.  Many of our leaders have stood for virtue when many other world leaders have stood for vice. We have opened our borders to the refugees of the world often to be taken advantage of or even hated for this charity.

Now we have a leader who says we can no longer do all these things without the possible cost of our existence. And many who have gladly benefited from our past sacrifices pillory us for our current realism, lecture us, defame us, threaten us economically ... and, oh yes, forget to thank us for all that we have sacrificed for them.

Moreover, half of our dumbed-down citizenry agree with this callowness by much of the rest of the world. We truly are Uncle Sap.