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- We use to export Hope now we export fear or security
- Have to put up more walls to protect but it also limits our interact with others
- One senior diplomat said " The upside is that we are more secure; the downside is you lose the human contact and it makes it way harder to have interacts with people who are not part of the elite."
- What happened to "we take the tired, sick, etc." as was the motto at Ellis Island in New York City harbor (were immigrants came into US from Europe)
- An Indian author was stopped coming into US and he said, "make you feel so unwanted now"
- Same author said "Americans openness has always been an inspiration for the whole world
- We are entitled to things because we are Americans: No common big challenge to work towards
- Dont have to put the hardwork in first then get the benefits
- Society based on cosumerism
- Our energy crisis is known but we do not want to do anything about it
- Priority to make America(cans) better (as we once was)
- Code Green - we need to make the Green revolution our call to act (like 1950/60 was getting someone to the moon)
- "Green is not simply a new form of generating electric power. It is a new form of gnerating national power.
- We have been living for far too long on borrowed time and borrowed dimes.
Overaching Opinion: America is great becasuse we are the land of opportunity that we use to choice with the perspective of the whole not of the I whereas now we chose by the I.