Compare the standard of living in former East Germany with that of West Germany. Same culture; different results.
Why?
North Korea with South Korea. Same culture; different results.
Why?
Compare the standard of living in Venezuela before Socialism; then after. Same culture before and after. Different results.
Why?
The experiment is over. Capitalism won.
Don’t do Socialism again.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, 56 men gathered in Philadelphia and committed treason against the most powerful empire on Earth.
Representing 13 colonies, they were landowners, entrepreneurs, politicians and others who had become gripped by new ideas flowing from Enlightenment thinkers and Christian teaching.
Those convictions led them to start a war no sane person believed they could win — and what happened inside the Pennsylvania State House did not just create a nation. It helped create the political world we still live in today.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.