The Four-Hundred-Billion-Dollar Rip-Off
November, 1976
insights and outcries on matters large and smallIn one of his gloomier moods, George Washington doubted that America would make it. He thought that the Government pension burden arising from the Revolutionary War might "add a debt of such magnitude as to sink the colonies."Thankfully, George was wrong. On April 25, 1911, the last Revolutionary War pensioner, the daughter of a veteran, died at the age of 90 in Brookfield, New York. The books were finally closed on a war that had ended 1...
