Is the 4th Of July actually now an Ironic Joke?The real name of the holiday is "Independence Day" , celebrating the fact that our country was no longer part of the British Empire and therefore 'independent', or self reliant. How would the founding fathers react if we told them we are now utterly dependent on just about every country in the world (except, well, maybe England...) for one thing or another? We could not survive one day as a nation were it not for our reliance on the Middle East for fuel, China for goods (and financial backing), India for, yep, you guessed it, customer service and so on and so on. I just was thinking about how July 4 ,1776 must have been. The ability to say, "Screw the rest of the world- We have everything we need RIGHT HERE!" if we want to. What a feeling that must have been. Maybe July 4 will have to become ," Start of the US Day". Or ' Global Economy Day" Or " Fireworks Day" (which are made, where, by the way?
2007-07-05
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