Dear Founding Fathers, You are the creators of one of the most powerful nations in the history of humanity. You laid the foundation on which we would build and this is the constitution/bill of rights. You stood strong through those first, hard years that every young nation has to survive through. You even gave your lives and wealth for the commonwealth of a nation. But why couldn't you guys have left us with some instructions with how to deal with all of the shit that could go wrong in the future? Mr. Franklin, you could write with both hands in different languages, you discovered electricity for god's sake! How could you not have set some better precedent or expectations for education and how it should proceed. You could see that we would argue over everything in the way that we argued over everything for all of our government's existence. You totally could have just scribbled down a little "Maketh all of our youth capable of solving poly variable equations." Or something like "Never at a time should this land of ours lag behind those of europe in the academic realm." A simple little statement like that in the form of a law of some sorts would really have cleared things up here and now. Next I come to you Mr. Hamilton, you master of the banks. We've seen some shit. We know that the economy dictates the lives of our people so how in the hell could you have left the direct well being of this country to chance? You may have fought for a national bank, nationalized currency and some other stuff, but sweet baby Jesus, you could have made us socialist or something and leave party politics out of the decisions that decide the state of this union. Hell, you guys could have just left the government in control of everything. You guys could have just flubbed some numbers here and there and made us the economically fit nation in the world! Now we are left to interpret all the vague, contradictory shit you guys said and all we end up doing is arguing our own points. Finally, Mr. Jefferson, you said once that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed by the blood of martyrs." Us here in the 21st century have gotten pretty good at that. If I'm being honest, that one specific idea that you created has led us to some wars, and some of our citizens have followed your advice, but in rather ignorant ways. So I would like to ask you to maybe reshape your argument? Maybe specify the situation that it is appropriate for such refreshings are appropriate? Or maybe just taking it back would be wondrous as well. Or maybe, make sure that this sort of refreshing would be a ritual like thing. Like arm every citizen and just make 'em kill each other every couple of months to keep things interesting. That would probably make all these sort of killings now seem relatively small. In summation, I would just like you guys to scrutinize what you say, because there will be some hooligans who will take those words a titch too seriously. You guys could also just maybe leave a little instruction guide on how to lead this country, or like a list of what is most important or just something to know that we are all right because all of us current Americans know that you guys were absolutely correct all of the time. Thus we absolutely love to quote you fellows. Again, if you guys could just make sure we are doing things right later on, that would be wonderful.

Question 4 Does this quote from Thomas Paine hold true in today's America? "If there is a country in the world, where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made up, as it is, of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms and habits of government, speaking different languages, and more different in their modes of worship, it would appear that the union of such a people was impracticable; but by the simple operation of constructing government on the principles of society and the rights of man, every difficulty retires, and all the parts are brought into cordial unison. There, the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged. . . . Their taxes are few, because their government is just; and as there is nothing to render them wretched, there is nothing to engender riots and tumults." Thomas Paine was essentially the speaker of the revolutionary war in America, and in the early stages of the American way, he describes rather accurately the atmosphere of America in 1776. But when this quote is applied to modern day's America, it holds only a little truth. Paine is correct in his assessment of the diversity of the America, but in the way the social sphere in modern times, and the way that the laws are enacted, he is definitely overly optimistic. North and South America spawned as primarily Spanish, English and French colonies that intermingled (generally poorly) with the natives of the lands. Then, Polish, Irish, German and Austrian came. We imported some African slaves and then the southern europeans started to migrate here. The chinese came, the Japanese came, the Mexican people came. In those early years of American existence, we were a young country, with people who had previously never lived in the vicinity of each other, were then next door neighbors. They had few similarities in religion, or language, or ideas for how things were to be run. They had their own sources of media, in their own languages, enjoying the company of their own people, allowing generally for less assimilation and more individualism culturally. It's not that there isn't immigration coming into the United States now, and it's not that those people form their own tight knit communities, but now we are forming to become a more assimilated people. In today's world, we do have people coming from India, from China, from Britain, and from Germany. We have Somalians and Kenyans and people from every nation, all practicing different religions and wanting for the supposed "American Dream." What's different now though, is that we are all assimilating. We have families that instead of having been here for one or two generations, they have been here for eight. Instead of having newspapers that are bespoke to a specific nationalities culture, are all in English. Instead of having our own, single nationality communities, we are more focused on multi-national communities that all enjoy the same TV shows and sports. We aren't as diverse as we were, making our people become a little bit more uniform for better or for worse. For instance, when a hispanic child moves to the U.S., they are immediately put into English classes because spanish is not all that usable in this country. In the times of Thomas Paine, this would have not been the case. When Paine says that "There, the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged. . . . Their taxes are few, because their government is just;" he is also not really correct in today's times. Today in America, we have a larger class divide than almost any other nation in any other time in history and this gap is only expanding. I don't mean to go all impassioned rant style on this, but the rich are favored in the way that they pay less taxes, they have more opportunities to make more money because of their status and social power. Then, in the world of the poor, they are oppressed. It is true that they are much better off than they were in yesteryear, but it's significantly harder to get a job if you are homeless, it's almost impossible to retire if you are poor, and family ties are no longer enough to have a comfortable old age. Then with taxes, during the time Paine wrote this, they had no income tax, and no property tax, and their sales tax was at about 8%. Today obviously this is not the case at all. Relative to other nations in the world, our taxes are pretty low, and they are rightfully high for their purposes, but it's not a laissez faire economy anymore. Then finally, with his idea that our government is just, by the fact that we were have been willing to slow progress economically and socially for the reason to prove that one side is right, is horrendously fickle and diluded. When Thomas Paine said that America is a land of diversity among many nations that bring many traits together, and that our government is proper and simply for the protection of human rights, he may have been partly right in the early ages of America. But in today's America, his statement is simply incorrect

Overtly loud people

I really don't like super loud people. They are loud because they think they have something that must be said, which is usually something that is unnecessary and dumb. I'll just get it out there that there are some loud people who do have good things to say, but for the sake of ranting, I'm referring to those kind of loud people. These kind of loud people always have to get their word in, make their point, even if it's at the expense of someone else's opportunity for conversation. When they are on a role, nothing can stop them. They are a thousand pound bolder rolling down a hill on a Japanese game show, crushing any other person's thought while all the victim can do is object quietly. When one tries to reason, or stop and ponder to think about something that comes up in a conversation, the bolder of a person comes in a pushes the conversation away from any deep thought, or nocks the reasoner down if mental insecurities come to play. Loud people are what obstruct people in their creative day to day lives, loud people are who are responsible for obstructing the goals of humanity as a whole and what I'm trying to say, is that those kind of loud people ruin everything ever.