sg at Bergman(less) Town Hall, Mar 18, 2025

The United States of America is the richest country in the history of the world.

Our wealth was produced through the hard work and ingenuity of millions of Americans: natives, immigrants, and those, like me, whose ancestors immigrated to this land of liberty

All of us have benefited from the visible and invisible hands of a government that makes our freedom possible. And, until today, that government has been the envy of the world.

Just to mention a few elements:
Universal free education.
Clean water and air, safe food, and access to nature maintained for us all.
Support for neighbors in need.
A robust universal retirement program.
Federally funded research that has given us improved cancer treatments, amazing energy technologies, the internet, and so much more.
And which supports innumerable private enterprises.

Finally, and critically,
Intolerance of corruption and adherence to the rule of law, without which government and business is impossible.

We are the richest nation on Earth.

Don't you dare tell us that our collective wealth should be diverted to billionaires instead of sustaining the systems that make our freedom possible.