“And he believes all industrialists are corrupt?” I asked. “That's very democratic.”
He snickered. “Jefferson emphatically pointed out to me that the Revolutionary War had been won by farmers who fought for their freedom. But he is dead wrong. At least in New York and New England, many of the continental and militia soldiers were mechanics, artisans and urban laborers, not just farmers. And my propositions are unconstitutional, as he is opposed to government financing private enterprise.”
“If he wants the nation to remain a nation of farmers, we'll be stuck in the Middle Ages, with naught but agriculture to sustain the entire economy.” I stated the obvious. “A schoolchild would know this.”
He beamed at me. “My point exactly. Imagine an industrialized nation.” His eyes grew wide. Again h
