"Veterans administration reports that pensions and benefits are still being paid yearly to veterans' heirs and dependents of war veterans, as the aftermath of the Mexican War of 1846. The Civil War of 1865. Wars with the Indian tribes, war with Spain of 1898. World War 1 and 2 amount to $1,788,883,344.[43]
"These do not include your states, counties, cities and private indebtedness with your extra load of interest payments on all of them.
"Regimented and enslaved economically by octopus monopolies created by your moneyism.
"With different kinds of national dictatorial and corruptive governments, with their organized forces of secret police, with their innumerable disgraceful prisons, insane asylums, and horrible concentration and slave working camps.
"Your compulsory military drafts, trainings, services, savage gory battles, and extermination. Life on your planet is so very hazardous, you have no safety.
"In general your sanitary systems are disgraceful. You criminally expose your people to typhoid, dysentery, infantile paralysis, and gastroenteritis from your sewer polluted drinking and bathing waters; and with your poisonous drugs, alcohol, tobacco and other unhealthful foods and habits.
"You are not by any means a free lance, from your economic struggles, and you will never have democracy, as it is truly defined, as long as you tolerate moneyism, but you love these conditions, and call that freedom?"
The Congressman then interrupted, "Although I am convinced by what I have seen, heard, and learned that the ways of life on your planet are superior to ours, yet your system would not be constitutional in the United States. An amendment to our constitution to conform to your ways may not prove successful. Not only our members of Congress, but also all members of our state legislatures would have to be persuaded that your way of life is the best. It would be very hard to get them to agree to your way of distributing the products of industry, for they would say that impartial distribution of the difference of ability among individuals in industry and earning capacity is unjust. They all strictly believe in our system of private enterprise and ownership of property."
Sun-Rank Banard answered, "I beg to correct them. We do not advocate the equal distribution of the products of industry regardless of the difference of ability, earning capacity, and deserved recompense of the individual. On the contrary, we reward only the deserving, intelligent, able individual worker and the real inventor or discoverer. Only they merit the benefits from their work; however, on Earth the industrialists, the entrepreneurs, and the financiers wrongly receive most of the credit. Very seldom, and only by hard struggles does your hard worker or your real inventor reap riches from his endeavors, regardless of the ability, inventiveness, industry, and earning capacity of your individual. It is the shrewd manipulator, the promoter, the wealthy, who first take advantage of circumstances to promote their own interests; who first seize, finance, and control your most profitable and basic natural elements, or the most desirable and lucrative enterprises, discoveries and inventions.
"On our planet the worker goes directly to our academy or laboratory to submit his ideas, if they have any merits, he gets full cooperation in working on them. There is no limit on the material, labor cost, and resources that are expended to help the individual to put through and perfect his ideas.