American Dream

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EcoNews February 4th. 2011

Keeping The American Dream Alive

My American Dream, Your American Dream; whoever you are, where ever
you are; it’s about belief in reason and free society; fairness and
equality of access to work and opportunity!

My thoughts as I consider emigrating: It’s about the victory of common
sense, opportunity, aspiration, reason and the efforts of the common
man to overcome tyranny and oppression to ‘make it’ by ability, hard
work and merit; not to ‘have it handed out on a plate’ instead to a
few selected elite by privilege.

Liza Minnelli
New York, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_New_York_(disambiguation)
Port of Call for Europeans fleeing oppression

Aaron Copland:
“Fanfare For the Common Man”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfare_for_the_Common_Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzf0rvQa4Mc

Bravo Boris!
Boris Johnson The Mayor of London finds his ‘inner Churchill’, after
some goading by Jeremy Paxman. BBC Newsnight, February 2nd.
He finally conceded that the privileged City Bankers “Could and should
do far more than put a few hundred more ‘Boris bikes’ on the streets
of London!” to put back (re-invest) more of what they take out in
bonuses, etc.
Are we witnessing the dawning of a new era in Philanthropy in the UK
at least or is it just more wishful thinking?

Will the bankers start investing in resourceful local people with
original ideas, aspirations, creativity, enterprise and talent and not
just large privileged and established organizations for example? I can
cite several instances as an able technical person who took my
original idea for Boris’ bikes to Barclays 10 years ago but was
turned down funding.

One of the reasons people are becoming increasingly restless in our
multi-cultural societies is that real people on the ground do not
perceive belief in reason and equality of access and fairness of
opportunity to work in today’s modern real world: ‘It doesn’t matter
what you know, it’s who you know’ you’ll here them mutter to each
other quietly and then change the topic. Will the US today accept
highly skilled foreigners when they ask to come?

There were also two coinciding interesting BBC programs on UK TV at 9
PM prior to BBC Newsnight the other night; one dealing with the
fairness in society topic in depth “Who gets the best jobs” and
another dealing with energy in Nature “The Secret Life of Waves”, both
of which have relevance to me as I watch the Scientific and
Engineering community ponder over my alternative independent proposals
for offshore pontoon and bridge-building. Hopefully I will be
acknowledged as the inventor of my own invention relating to this for
once, and not be ruled out again on grounds of having insufficient
rank, status, funds or privilege by The Carbon Trust!
In the US, there are strictly maintained guidelines about who has
access to unpublished Patent Applications, preventing plagiarism of
ideas by those more privileged without consent from those who are less
privileged.

What ever happened to our sense of ‘fair play’, something for which we
in the UK were renowned for abroad certainly since WW2?

Nick Robinson