[Melas]

19th century America was largely agrarian, and we were NOT, I repeat NOT the richest nation on the planet. We didn't emerge as an economic superpower until well into the 20th century.

[John Filson]

How can you say America wasn't the richest nation on the planet? Wealth is in intellectual potential. It's in mineral deposits. It's in the ability to obtain what one seeks. America had that. We were agrarian and we were a frontier nation. We ended that artificially by halting homesteading in 1968. It was the belief that our expansion would continue that brought on the children. It was leadership that helped us to realize that belief that gave them wealth to acquire and reinvest.

[hedgetrimmer]

When America was a mere infant, the French were already trying to copy us. Many Polish and Hungarians fought in the American Revolution and gave their lives to the cause of liberty.

America is simply the richest nation because our country is predicated on the things that all men want-- life, liberty and property. No other nation has ever been founded on those principles. If we are to remain a wealthy nation, we cannot allow the global socialists to steal it from us by erasing our borders and our culture of liberty through trade "agreements" and illegal immigration, or using international law or tribunals to make unconstitutional decisions about American life, liberty or property.