Whew, It's Not So Bad

I want to share with you an article I read on CNN this morning. It is refreshing to hear a positive viewpoint in today’s media. This is a link to Glenn Beck’s (no surprise) article entitled “What’s Right With America? Plenty”:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/10/beck.rightwithamerica/index.html

Here are a few excerpts I appreciated (if you don’t have time to read the whole thing):

>> "We've made it through a depression; we've made it through wars, oil shocks, and major terrorist attacks and we're still standing. In fact, we're not just standing, we're towering over the rest of the world. Our economy is almost as big as the next four largest economies on Earth (Japan, Germany, China and Great Britain) combined. The state of California alone has an economy as large as the entire country of France. Illinois has the same GDP as all of Mexico. New York matches the entire GDP of Brazil. Florida's economy is as large as South Korea's. Texas has a GDP roughly equal to Canada's. Michigan's economy is as large as the entire country of Argentina."

>> "What's right with America? How about the way we treat the less fortunate? With no help from our government, Americans gave a record $306 billion to charities last year alone. We give twice as much as the next closest country and, relative to the size of our economies, we give 1,000 percent more than the French. What's right with America? It's not just the wealthy who are generous. Two-thirds of American families making under $100,000 a year give to charity. Compassion is ingrained in our culture like no other."

>>"We love our country. World Values Survey found that 77 percent of Americans are very proud of their nationality. That puts us in a first place tie with the Irish. Australia was next and no one else was really even close."

I have to agree with him. Sometimes we hear so much negativity from the media we forget that our United States of America is still closer to perfection than any civilization has ever been before.