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Why America is the ‘For Profit’ Country
Let me first start by saying I am proud to be an American. Born and raised here, I have been given opportunity after opportunity to exchange fragments of time for money. At one point, it was a lot of time given for a lot of money. I was living the American Dream.
It is the one place you can come and make a name for yourself. I even once met a woman while traveling in Asia, who came to America as an immigrant with her husband. They built up a multi-million dollar jewelry business in Southern California without ever learning how to speak English. She spoke only Vietnamese, Chinese, and Spanish. Spanish because that’s the main language of the men she picked up from Home Depot for various tasks and manual labor.
She raised a lawyer, two doctors and a CEO who are pillars in their societies. Kudos to you, my dear, kudos to you.
To live in America is a dream to the rest of the world. A dream many, I mean many, try to achieve. It’s their dream to ‘make it,’ here because of what is portrayed on television to the stories their lucky friends and siblings relay back to them. While they eat a cup of noodle and share one bedroom with three other immigrants trying to ‘make it,’ in America.
We are a for-profit country in every single way. Everyone is busy working their tails off to make a profit to not only provide…
