Quote Originally Posted by Oglethorpe View Post
Hey... I'm not debating that America is a great place to live, but I think as a country we're a bit jaded as to how we got to where we are. Old dead white guys established a government designed to keep the rich minority rich and the poor majority poor. It's only over the next 200+ years that the mid/lower class got some rights to speak of, if any.

If things were still the way the Old Dead White Guys designed them, we'd be in a world of hurt right now, Christian or otherwise. How many of us would be in the 5-10% rich, land-owning majority?

Read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States".

"That'll blow your hair back."
(to quote Good Will Hunting)
With a great part of a continent lying at their feet they must have known it was a matter of time until everyone who wished it would be a landowner.Please do some further study on the sacrifices these people made, not all of them came out of the conflict smelling like roses, as a matter of fact many of them never recovered their losses either due to the conflict or due to public service afterward, both Washington and Jefferson as well as others never overcame the debts they incurred due to their servitude to the idea of Liberty. This should humble all of us.