The Way It Should Be...If Our Leaders Had Balls

America used to be a great place to live...but more often than not these days, it has become a fragmented and diverse society that is breaking down under the weight of a tiresome burden--a failure of its people to communicate, to work together, to UNITE.

In 1907, Theodore Roosevelt put these ideas forth about immigrants and being an American:

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes and American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.

"But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here.

"Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and this is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Eloquently put, and simple to understand. We must join together as a people if we are to survive. Under our roof there are many houses, but it must be remembered under whose roof they are. If we are to understand our neighbors, our friends, and the strangers next door, we must speak a common language. If we are to move forward as a people, it must be as one people, not a group of many different peoples.

The "melting pot" that was once America has soured, and there are chunks of unmelted people floating in the pot, all clamoring to be heard as they swim around, pulling others under in order to have their say, their way.

I am an American. Are you?

And so it goes...