An American today controls the world. She lives for herself, and is successful. She has a job, not on the farm or with the family, but in the office. She is a college graduate, and is paying on a new car, house, and computer. She also pays for her own washer and dryer, heat and air, even bottled water. The weekends are spent at the gym, where she pays to do work, and at charities, where she goes to luncheons, and donates to the liberation of lab animals. She lives in a suburb, in a house like many others. She is an individual, and pays for the title.

Her family is different than the one she grew up in. There are children, splitting their time between the father and mother. They don't

They are given fewer opportunities to succeed, but in America they still can. These children from poor families can climb up, and gain respect, and work. They can go to become a respected college, or boss, or even business owner. These kids can go on to become the wealthy ones, if they try. Anyone can make it. That, now, is what it means to be an American.

Our next group of Americans live not in a suburb or city, but along a two-land blacktop highway, in an aluminum-sided mobile home. There is a young mother, with four children. She gave birth to the first when her peers were at a formal school dance. She does not work, because the only place that will hire is one where she would have to ask the question, "Would you like to try a value meal today?" Her husband is slightly overweight, and has always had trouble with reading. He has a temper and pro

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