Hope is priceless. Cost of Hope is not

FROM the time the Treaty of Paris was signed – when the Philippines were sold to the US by Spain for $20 million -- the United States has been considered the land of milk and honey.

For sugar cane, cannery and agricultural workers recruited, to the student pensionados, veterans and their families as well as millions more, the U.S. is where the pasture is greener: green bucks and green card convey the image of Hope.