Our nation is foundering

United States of America. Land of the free. Home of the brave.

1607. The new land’s first settlement. Passengers on that Mayflower crate paid 10 pennies. Our first skilled workers earned 6 pounds annually. Big money was hustling tobacco and fur skins,

The job a hot 15 hours a week. Not that I was there, but I know nobody traded in their Escalade yearly. Rent was cheap. Hamptons real estate agents didn’t come till weeks later.

Nobody owned designer sneakers. Forget T-shirts and jeans. Ladies wore bras and drawers and didn’t peel either off often. Botox? Forget it. If friends came over the spread was mutton, nuts, roots and wild game. A VIP got pork. Shove TV. The guests hummed. Early cellphones? A guy beat a drum.

Those copper pennies we now throw out arrived 1

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