[...] I should tell you about my friends and family. There are about 280 million of them. They come from everywhere on Earth. Why, there are even people who may have been your next door neighbors a few years back. Remember, they were the ones who didn’t bow and stoop when you passed by, the ones you had your eye on for when you got the power to do something about people who disagreed with you. Well too bad, but they came here just as such people have been doing for 400 hundred years. The funny thing is most of us are descended from people you wouldn’t like. You really would not have cared for George Washington, Daniel Boone, Abe Lincoln or Martin Luther King. You see, they fought for freedom for themselves and others, something you could never understand. You probably can’t understand this either, but few of my friends and family spend very much time thinking about you. We are looking at the future and you are the past. Our President tells us to go out and shop and you see a weak, depraved people. Wrong, what we are is a strong, vibrant culture. When my friends and family buy things, they help to provide work for others so that they can have food, clothing and shelter. They use the money they earn to support their churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. They support their schools, donate to charities and send more of their private wealth to help people around the world than any other nation.[...]