America: What We Are and What We Were

I’m sorry America, but you’re fat.

                Nearly everyone in this country is obese. I stand at the supermarket and the slim Jims of the past are gone, to be replaced by the fat Tonys of modern America. Honestly, it’s embarrassing. We used to mean something more than a cheeseburger and fries. We used to be about freedom and industry. Now we think we’re about freedom but we’re really about the latest and greatest gadgets, not to mention the new diet fads. What happened?

Well we sent our industries overseas (hey it was cheaper) and now it’s come  back to bite us (yeah we really shouldn’t  have done that) because we just aren’t making any money any more. (Well not much.) The War has drained us, our oil dependency has crippled us, and no one knows what to eat anymore. We’re dying America! We need to do something fast! We need to open our own industries again until it really means something good if it’s made in the US (Honestly Silly String and Stage Light Bulbs aren’t enough to run a country on).   So please, support the guys who make their stuff here and benefit OUR economy, try our best to recover our honor, and put the cheeseburgers down and try some carrots. We can still fix this. We can make it better, we just have to try. As a team.

Rome wasn’t built in a day but it wasn’t destroyed in one either. We are on the downward slope and we need to find our way back up.  We’ve pulled through hard times before and we can do it again. We have to make things here, even if the people making them aren’t legal citizens and sell these things to foreign markets. Everyone in China should be reading “Made in the USA”, not everyone in the USA reading “Made in China”. Things can still get better if we bring more of our interests back home. Iraq is all well and good but America needs our people and our money back. We aren’t going to save America from terrorism by rendering it a poor desolate country. Improve our defenses instead of hunting them down. It’ll save time and effort, not to mention lives. If we spend money on our defense it will benefit our economy and protect us but we need our army back here to do it. We need to examine our expenditures and make sure what we’re spending is really worth it.

There’s a lot of discontentment with the Government but it’s not entirely their fault. We let this happen too by not spotting the danger sooner. We didn’t think that the availability of preserved food would make us eat more of it and we didn’t think that cutting costs by globalizing would mean cutting future profits. America is slipping but we can still catch ourselves. We’re not the nanny of the world. We need to look out for ourselves. Let’s build up ourselves before we help other people. We need the recovery if we’re even to help them ever again.

Let’s do it America, let’s prove that we are (as we claim) number one. Let’s show them our strongest asset is the American spirit, to always come back from the worst. No matter what.