Sarah Paine

They were a very generous group of people.

Others felt generous to them.

That's when the GI Bill just passed and saying, okay, you've saved everyone, so therefore we're going to give you college educations, extend home loans to you, not to African Americans.

They were excluded from this, which is a problem, but others, white Americans, weren't.

And it led to massive economic growth where people who never had a college education, their family, they did.

And they all of a sudden, instead of having really hard manual labor, this real optimism.

And then it extended to foreign countries.

This is when this country was tremendously generous to others.

And it worked very well for us.

And think about the Marshall Plan.

It looks really generous, putting all this money into Europe.

We made a fortune off of it, as did Europe.

If you're smart, you're looking for win-wins of things where you both benefit because that'll incentivize the other side to join in.

This is basic strategy.

And this is one of the reasons I've got problems

with the United States' turn to zero-sum approaches, where I'm going to get everything, you get nothing, and then I look so smart when we do the clickbait on this moment where I get everything and you get nothing.

It's much smarter.

And then the other piece is that a lot of things don't pay off immediately.

So George Bush is not re-elected president.

He absolutely deserved to be.