What I love about America

[Robert Goodale]

You forgot whiskers on kittens, warm woolen mittens, bright copper kettles,
brown paper packages tied up with string.  You know... some of those other
favorite things.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV

> 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