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Back in 1808 New York City was a small town located at the south end of Manhattan Island — the rest of the island was merely farm and pasture land. But the ambitious New York City Mayor De Witt Clinton had great plans. He created a map where he laid out where the future streets would go. Clinton hoped that New York would expand northwards in time to fill up the entire island.
Sure enough, by 1850, New York had grown and had become one of the largest cities in the world. Yes, the old America was a place filled with “big dreamers” and their “big dreams” who thought that anything was possible. Even as late as 1963, President John F. Kennedy pledged that the United States would land a man on the Moon by 1970 — even though at that moment Kennedy had no idea how to accomplish this incredible feat. But by 1969, the American flag had been planted on the Moon.
Today, as we seem unable to solve our many problems (and acquire new problems every day), it looks as though America is no longer filled with confident “big dreamers.” Do you agree or disagree with this negative assessment of the United States in 2020?
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