I don't know, briskit. When ANY other country in the world, as young as we are, can supply food and supplies for 1/3 to 1/2 to the world, can go to their rescue in whatever natural disaster comes to the various countries, can marshall our defenses as we did in WWII from a relatively small force (130,000 to 16 million by the end of the WWII), build ships and planes, sometimes at the rate of 1 an hour, or 1 per day, and win against enemies who had sworn to take over not only us, but the entire world (Japan and Germany), to say nothing about all the wonderous things our country has accomplished here in the US. So much so, that people are trying to climb in by every legal and illegal means possible.
They didn't come here for socialism, nor was our country founded on socialism. It was founded because the Fathers of this Country envisioned Liberty for All.
NOT freebies for all.
NOR to Take from the Rich, and give to the Poor (and the malcontents or do-nothings.)
From Wike re the US Constitution…. We are guaranteed Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not guaranteed free health care, not guaranteed free housing, not guaranteed free food, nor clothing, nor anything else. We have the freedom to do it for ourselves.
From this link: en.wikipedia.org
The first sentence of the Declaration asserts as a matter of Natural Law the ability of a people to assume political independence, and acknowledges that the grounds for such independence must be reasonable, and therefore explicable, and ought to be explained.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The next section, the famous preamble, includes the ideas and ideals that were principles of the Declaration. It is also an assertion of what is known as the "right of revolution": that is, people have certain rights, and when a government violates these rights, the people have the right to "alter or abolish" that government.[69]
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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