With this project, I was imagining what the desk drawers of our ‘founding fathers’ would have looked like and more so what their desk drawers would most likely store today. I decided to concentrate on just one of our founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton (who interests me the most considering that my family’s genealogy proves that I am an actual descendent of Alexander Hamilton). Given this information, I began to wonder what Mr. Hamilton would think of globalization. Around the world, inequality is increasing, while the world appears to globalize. In many cases, international politics and various interests have led to a diversion of available resources from domestic needs to western markets. The facts are not secret. Despite ebbs and surges, the gap between U.S. exports and imports has been steadily widening across three decades. For several decades, in fact, the federal government has tolerated and even encouraged the dispersal of American production oversees. American leaders and policy makers are dedicated to a faith in “free market” globalization, promising Americans that this policy guarantees long-term prosperity. When in actuality, the U.S. economy is being kept afloat by enormous foreign lending so that consumers can keep buying more imports, thus increasing the bloated trade deficits. This lopsided arrangement will end when those foreign creditors (major trading parties like Japan, China, and Europe) decide to stop the lending or simply reduce it substantially. That reckoning could arrive as an extreme financial crisis for America. To exhibit this concern, I decided to use grains of rice to represent all the various goods America has been importing. I then decided to write letters on each grain of rice stating this concern and the need for America to revert back to the founding principles of such documents like the Constitution and Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist papers.