Give Me Your Tired, Your Rich

Defining a nation is a difficult task. America has become bloated. With bloating comes the responsibility of understanding the invading parasite and finding a remedy to prevent its future recurrence. Bloating often occurs at the onset of stress. When an entity becomes confused and threatened, it often begins to harbor basic elements to ensure its survival. Unlike a fit and well-trained machine that by sheer Pavlovian operant conditioning has been trained to accomplish a mission, Americans have been malnourished. Not only has our main educational opportunity been subverted, our traditional and cooperative entertainment mechanisms have deteriorated. In a plea for sanity and sustenance upon a bleak and barren playground, Americans without mentorship over-consumed. In a flighty and failed attempt to prepare for the future, Americans conversely have accumulated debt, weight, and immorality. One look at our traditional source of information explains it candidly. Nowhere it seems is there a clear and concise representation of clean healthy living. The mainstream, what once was the picture perfect depiction of American life, no longer exists. We have globalization. What once was a cemented torch of dignity to the rest of the world, American, now is a hazy and misrepresented psychotic episode. How did this happen? Was God’s overt system of “Checks and Balances” engaged to immunize America from globalization? Is it really such a good idea for each foreign and unique culture to abandon their own in exchange for American ideals? What the rest of the world has always wanted has been freedom, but as they quickly are learning that freedom does not come without a monetary price. Capitalism only has remained successful with its stringent boundaries, because just as the American people have become bloated so has our capitalist system. There is no such entity as a “land of plenty.” Freedom is granted with great sacrifice, and the millions of immigrant Americans that traversed the oceans to settle here have given. They have given with the sweat from their hands and the blood from their hearts, and it is to those individuals America owes her history. The working class was for whom America was made, and with the Senate’s rejection of a financial bailout for Detroit’s automakers they made their philosophy clear. “America is for the rich.”