Personal Narrative: My Vision For America

Visions are only unique as the individual themselves who make up this country. America is not the same as it was ten years ago. Who would have thought that we would have cell phones that were similar to a small computer in our pocket, a car that could talk back to us, or that we would have an African American president? Our visions for America could change everyday. My vision for America is very unique for my age group. We live in a free country. We live in a democracy that allows us to say almost anything we want, do almost anything we want, and believe in whatever we want (as long as these things do not harm or threaten other American citizens). Unfortunately, we tend to take that for granted. Americans have become very lazy. We work for others who are too lazy to work, and those people get more money than we do. Over 50% of Americans who are eligible to vote simply don’t because they are too lazy to spend about 15 minutes to vote. Imagine what would happen if every …show more content…
National Debt Clock, each person in the U.S., including newborn children, would have to pay $190,673 to pay off debt. Most teenagers don’t think of these things when we buy anything. We just spend money out of habit. The problem with that is, if we don’t start thinking about it, we will have another Great Depression. Even though my generation wasn’t the one to screw things up, we need to be the one to fix everything. We need to make people of America realize that if we don’t stop printing money, the value of our money will just keep dropping. Then, instead of having $2.00 for a coke at the store, we will have to have $5.00. Prices will go up, but the value of money will go down, causing us to have more money for less products. We think that money will always be around and the more money, the better. We think that if we keep printing money, it’s better for everybody. Unfortunately, that isn’t true and more Americans need to realize