E Plurubus Unum

Our national Motto.

I wonder, out of many, what?

We weren't the first modern democracy.  We weren't (by a long way) the first nation to see how backwards slavery was.  We weren't (by a long way) the first to see how backwards racism was.  We were certainely not the first country to invade others.

What makes us so special.  I think it is the working attitude to make life easier that set America apart at its founding.  It was built by pioneers who went to the new world to find a better life.  Then it grew and immigrants came who looked for streets paved with gold.  Now, people are willing to work in slave-like conditions to be in this country illegaly.

I think the problem is, we have made life too easy.  Indicators? For one Baconnaise.  Also, we have forgotten how hard working to keep our dream alive is.  I'm not just talking about people of the North Shore, I'm talking everyone.  During WWII, people brought their coins to be melted down to be made into bullets.  There was such a sense of working to keep the American dream alive. 

Now, the only way that we can think to keep our dream alive is to keep new citizens out.  We enforce immigration laws so strongly, yet forget that these immigrants are our forefathers.  We have been given to much in our Bacon-Mayonnaise  covered youth.