What I love about America

[gordon stelter]

>     Gordon, if you wish to live in a fantasy wherein
> everything about America is
> despicable and vile, and you go to the lengths
> necessary to find things that happened
> five hundred years ago to support your position, I
> have no objection either.
> It just goes to show what a hypocritical little
> wingnut you are.
> Kevin
> 
What I love about America:
     Tree lined streets. Trolley cars. Big Victorian
mansions. Rose-covered cottages. The Erie Canal.
Jeffersonian Democracy. The Constitution. Edison.
Tesla. Westingouse. Penn Station. What was once the
finest railroad system on earth.
McKim Meade & White. Frederick Law Olmstead. Carnegie.
Tiffany. John LaFarge. Whistler. Maxfield Parrish.
Howard Pyle. The Palace Theater. Eddie Cantor. Jack
Benny. Benny Goodman. Bix. The songs of Kern,
Gershwin, Berlin, Porter and most especially Richard
Rogers. Gus Kahn. Doris Day. Fletcher Henderson.
Bogey. Jimmy Stewart. Buster Keaton. Chaplin.
Katherine and Audrey Hepburn. Helen Forrest.
    Companies that really cared for their employees,
and built them houses, theaters, parks, schools and
hospitals. Religious freedom. Freedom of speech and of
the press. Indoor plumbing and a propensity for
bathing surpassed, possibly, only by the Swiss.
Paramahamsa Yogananda ( an authentic Indian saint who
was granted audience at the White House by Coolidge )
     Mark Twain. Lincoln. And an environment that has
spurred the greatest technological advances the world
has ever seen.
     Sadly, much on this list has passed, and is now
replaced with strip malls, asphalt, companies that
screw their employees out of life savings and CEO's
that "make" 500 times what their entry level guys do.
Rap "music", pollution, and a government that is not
doing enough to get us free from petroleum dependancy,
and may very soon start WWWIII.
    I have a right to be sad.
    Thump

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