According to Laurence Shames, “Americans have always been optimists, and optimists have always liked to speculate” (90). Shames starts to talk about how Texans would purchase some land, put a main street on it, building some structures and call it a town all hoping for the railroad to come through their town. Every single person who tried to do this we're optimists. In the article “The More Factor” they did this for two reasons: to make money and for America to keep booming like it was. I think that this was the one way that America was really going to take off and turn into the power house country they could be. The article then starts to talk about baby boomers, and where were all these people going to go; the only place they could go which
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We come to find out from this article that the American economy has been the frontier this whole time. American’s have been so caught up in the need for land, and weren’t even thinking about all the money. Now that this is happening, “a growth in responsibility and happiness-will have to fulfill our need to believe that our possibilities are still expanding” (94). America needed to start thinking about what wants and needs of theirs were going to benefit them more. Shames goes on to talk about how the people of America are not letting the frontier’s promise die. “It is not a coincidence that John F. Kennedy dubbed his political promise the New Frontier” (95). He explains how America is different from other countries because we have access to resources. For example, the United States gets oil from North Dakota and down south, coal from Asia, and steel from Canada and Asia as well. The United States have never been in need of things but the generations coming are all wanting more and more and will never be satisfied. I agree with what he is saying because even some of my bosses at my work say how my generation is ruining some business because we are “lazy”. He never lets me forget how my generation just wants to sit at home and never do anything with our lives. Now that I am starting to thinks about college I find this statement very helpful because college isn’t cheap, and working is the one way that I will make money to pay off my
We come to find out from this article that the American economy has been the frontier this whole time. American’s have been so caught up in the need for land, and weren’t even thinking about all the money. Now that this is happening, “a growth in responsibility and happiness-will have to fulfill our need to believe that our possibilities are still expanding” (94). America needed to start thinking about what wants and needs of theirs were going to benefit them more. Shames goes on to talk about how the people of America are not letting the frontier’s promise die. “It is not a coincidence that John F. Kennedy dubbed his political promise the New Frontier” (95). He explains how America is different from other countries because we have access to resources. For example, the United States gets oil from North Dakota and down south, coal from Asia, and steel from Canada and Asia as well. The United States have never been in need of things but the generations coming are all wanting more and more and will never be satisfied. I agree with what he is saying because even some of my bosses at my work say how my generation is ruining some business because we are “lazy”. He never lets me forget how my generation just wants to sit at home and never do anything with our lives. Now that I am starting to thinks about college I find this statement very helpful because college isn’t cheap, and working is the one way that I will make money to pay off my