I REMEMBER

I remember when America was still a great nation. It was  time when Republicans were still patriotic and honest.When greed hadn't yet affected everything from the price milk to the cost of renting a place to live or buying a forever home. It was a time when veterinarians cared more about the health of pets than ripping off the pet owner and physicians were more interested in medicine that making millions. It was a time when you could book a hotel room by actually calling he hotel not some reservation center in another city or another country. Corporations had phone numbers they weren't entities and hiding and they welcomed comments from their customers.Movies were judged by how good they were not by how impressive the box office was and they were made for adults. People read books then, often the same books which they discussed with each other.Television had serious dramas or major musicals or sex-free sitcoms and commercials were far, far fewer than they are today. Stand-up comedians related the comical problems of everyday life not their difficulties with constipation, diarrhea, and erectile disfunction. We had just as much sex back then but it wasn't topic # 1. While everyone seems happy with their cell phones, large screen color TVs, and endless choice of streaming movies, we're fatter than ever, angrier, and far more unfulfilled. We are constantly told who is more beautiful, more talented, and richer than we are, or worse who is fatter, uglier, meaner and more heartless and yet is the darling of millions.