OUR AMERICAN DREAM
Adapted from MY AMERICAN DREAM: by Jerry L. Rhoads, author of the Wonders of the World, poetry collection (The Eighth Wonder, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Wonders of the World).
(Also, quoting From Martin Luther King's “I have a dream rooted in the American Dream”, and JFK who said "ask not what your country can do for
you, but ask what you can do for your country", Then the personification of the American Dream is left to every citizen, or aspirant to pledge
allegiance to our flag, speak our language, and promise to pay their way, in learning the American way, by taking their risk, and earning their reward from their own American Dream.)
OUR AMERICAN DREAM PART ONE
“Our American Dream, is the feeling of freedom, without prejudice towards any American citizen. It’s the feeling good when you get up
in the morning, and can decide what you’re going to do that day, who you’re going to see, and what you’re going to say. Without fear of incrimination
or discrimination.
It’s the feeling that you can make a difference. And compete in a diverse, and equity seeking marketplace. Applying the risk, and reward tenets of laisses-faire enterprise. And competing in global trade without impunity but with a offensive plan of winning. Using defense as the way to compete with rules, and safeguards.
It’s the feeling you can produce your product, you can sell your produce, and you can benefit from your hard work, unhindered. Without criminal intent or purpose.
It’s the feeling when you help your children with their homework, so they will be able to use their knowledge for growth, for maturity, for the good of the free country. In schools that are administered by God fearing, non-woke, teachers.
It’s the feeling when you send them off to school, knowing they will receive a concerned teacher’s attention, sensitivity, and guidance. And knowing as they grow up, they will thrive on their freedoms, without discrimination, to communicate, to express themselves, to direct their own destiny. Without
injustice of forethought, for expression of their thoughts, and goals.
It’s the feeling when they graduate from grade school, junior high, and high school, that they are taking the steps towards a better life. To pursue a
higher education, as their career objectives are directing them. And when you give their hand away in matrimony, that happiness shall be theirs. For together as husband and wife, they can create the same, and even more opportunities for their off-spring.
It’s that feeling when, you can unchain your dog, and watch her run free for at least a little while, to watch the expression on her face, when she’s
released from the shackles; and the sadness that reappears when she must be chained. As we all feel, when we leave our homes for the workplace.
The American Dream, is the freedom of choice to buy the bread you want to buy, to acquire the goods you can afford to acquire, to invest the capital you have saved, in ventures you want to take for the good of your family, and your
country.
Striving for independence of entitlements as we take responsibility for our health, and welfare, knowing these can be lost with poor health care habits,
divorce, and negative purposes. Positivity must rein, or the American Dream becomes the American Nightmare.
The American Dream, is being able to communicate in writing, speaking, and in whatever form, language takes, our opinions, our thoughts, our prayers, our visions, and my own dreams to those who want to listen, and to those enemies of the American way, who in themselves have not discovered America. The land of the patriotic, and ethical work products, bringing quality above quantity to the worldwide marketplace.
