America, the beautiful, We still celebrate July 4th

Happy Birthday America , tomorrow we celebrate 233 years, and unless Korea hits us we'll still be standing.
We started out as a large group of immigrants coming to this nation to earn our freedoms, people coming from Europe, Africa, and many other lands, freedom and all of the opportunities this land offered.
We started out as a large colony, and then another colony would form, and another, and our old countries would tax us for our imports, our exports, mother countries reaching out to this new land to support the old.
We had the tea party, we started a movement brave for it's time to get out from under this taxation of the motherland's. we fought battles to earn this freedom from taxation, and freedom from Europe's tenacious hold across the ocean, and we did win this war with time, and loss of men.
We wrote a declaration of Independence which we still celebrate tomorrow, and a Constitution outlining laws to live by in these United States which the colonies became. We wanted Taxation to be thought out, and for this mass of people's to be strongly represented and thought out before taxation's were invoked.
We fought more internal battles as one 1/2 of the country battled the other half to free people brought to our country as slaves, this particular war cost bought side many lives, but eventually the slaves were freed, but for many freed to what was a big question, it would take years for them to be favorably protected by laws needing to re-written to catch up with the theory. For some it was a slow growth as a people and for others it was definitely the land of opportunity, and again the land of freedom.
Other wars came to pass as we grew, we grew into a protector of liberty and freedom, and when other countries would try to bully and acquire other lands afar, we would intervene, we would stand against atrocities being committed against others.
Meanwhile, within our own lands, the new rich and affluent, mixed with the old rich and affluent to form a land that grew too quickly for it's youth, a land that rich men wanted to exploit as quickly as their monies would allow, so they could reap all the riches this land could possibly render them, be it animal, vegetable or mineral. They built their industrial revolutions, they built their sweat houses that freed men labored in along with the children and women, they were insatiable in appetite for more, they quickly expanded to the Midwest via railroads to build more companies, more industry which brought more laborers, and with laborers came an ethnic encompassing neighborhood's, some with slums, some with rooming houses which would eventually lead to apartment buildings, houses and land owners.
And still not satisfied they continued to reach out west, new railroads being built, towns being built in record time and the East Coast Affluent searched for more.
Throughout this time some good Representatives were found for government, this very young government, but the very greedy and very old seated affluent kept a tight grip always to protect their interests, with less and less thought being given to protecting the rights of the very peoples they had started out to protect: This young band of Americans, from the newly merged country.
And so it has continued to this point, Greed and corrupt beings buying powerful positions, other kinder and wiser men trying to hold strong to promises made to the masses, and the conflicts of give and take that go on daily for this great country, this lovely land of opportunity.
So much greed and corruption and the various conflicts finally brought this country to a screeching halt about 1 to 2 years back, and it's instability could felt in all walks of life by last fall, financial collapses, housing market collapses, stock market collapses, auto industries collapsing, jobs collapsing, and the spiral into a mass people who were loosing everything while the corrupted corporate giants continued to load their pockets with departing jumbo bonuses, 200 more people out on the streets living and sleeping on the streets, hidden in the dark under viaducts, viaducts the officials have the nerve to fence off so these poor diminished people don't even get that shelter.
And 200 more, and 2000, more, and 10,000. more lose their homes. Devastation of lifestyle, upswing in suicides, huge upswing in family suicides....
And so we elect a man who has promised to possibly slowly fix our country and huge decisions are made on corporate and banking bailouts to help the people and help the housing market, and still the lenders don't loan to the needy as now they tell us our houses are worth a $100,000 less than they were two years ago, and we try to adjust, we try to stand through it all, much of it requiring some luck or fortune as to if your job is still there tomorrow for the tomorrows count a long way towards paying your bills and not getting behind on monies due to the corporate giants who remain in power.
And the government pushes through some laws in record time, but drags ass on passing other laws holding the credit companies in check so they don't destroy more people., and the lives of other people dependent on them for support. But for some odd reason this newly passed law won't go into effect for many months, when it should have passed and implemented right here and now for the protection of the masses.
And so this week's greed report mentions our bank as one of the credit card companies fleecing the very people they are in business to truly help, and we look on in disgust knowing how many households will be hurt by this lack of action.
And in closing: we still celebrate this most beautiful land, we still celebrate whatever freedoms we still have here in this land, and still celebrate that we have free elections so that we can keep trying to elect someone who will show care and wisdom in their consecutive decisions made to protect a people from the greed and corruption that exists, and we as Americans celebrate that at least we have a chance in this land as the battle between good and evil continues onward.
We are free to move about the country. We are free to celebrate family and friends. We are free to be more vocal and let the REPRESENTATIVE'S know we want law to protect us expedited.
Happy Birthday America, may the promise you hold for tomorrow guide us through this time.
We love you, you are beautiful still, and together we can save you if we work hard to remember the people of the land.