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The United States had only 6 percent of the world’s population and we have about 7 percent of the land surface of the world.  But, despite the fact that we are so small in comparison to the rest of the world, we as American citizens own 45 percent of all the automobiles, 60 percent of all the telephones, 30 percent of all the radios, and 80 percent of the television sets!  On the production side, this country produces 25 percent of all the steel, 40 percent of the electric power, 50 percent of the corn, 60 percent of the natural gas, 30 percent of the beef, and 40 percent of all the aluminum in the world!  And all of that by 6 percent of the world’s population!

Believe!, Richard M. DeVos with Charles Paul Conn, page 81