I love Thomas Jefferson, or what I know of him, and he was very right in that statement you posted regarding the situation in the USA and each separate country. Unfortunately, thru globalization his statement modernized, should read something like….
βTo take from one, country like the USA, because it is thought this country and that of its citizens has acquired too much, in order to spare to other backward countries, whose citizens, have not exercised equal industry and skill,
is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to every country the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.β Mr. Copper 1980 π