For America, Let's holiday!

 It was Oprah who came to Australia last year, and now, it should be the land down under that returns to favour and head to the states

While it is true that the US of A is in a bit of strife at the moment with some financial worries, and a bit of bad bookkeeping it couldn’t be a better time for us aussie to pack up the jayco and book with Qantas to head over  to the states.

Helping the economy and having a holiday? What is this nonsense I speak of?  Well, none really.

While the economic bear takes it grip on the flow of the good old green paper, at least America has its monuments, its architecture, its Hollywood and of course; the Happiest place on earth, Disneyland.

America has done quite a lot to be honest, building a nation on the basis of fighting for virtues of independence during the late 16^th century, to today where they distribute excessive amount of foreign aid, about 58 billion a year is what gets filtered to 20 agencies (nations etc.).

Most of this money goes to countries such as the now liberated Egypt in a midst of change, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan and Nigeria that clearly needs the funds to improve and raise the living standards. While America makes its mistakes, this is not one of them, while the states are often the first port of call to criticise this is one area less to attack on heated arguments.

And wasn’t it America that landed the first man on the moon in 1969 and truly set the rocket fuel to the fire of space engineering? Sure their motive was to beat the Soviet Union, but for whatever the cause, we have America to thank for NASA, and the immortal words of “one step for man, one giant leap for mankind” uttered by Neil Armstrong. 

So you can imagine going to holiday there, to see Abe and Washington, trying to find the real Springfield that matches the one in the Simpsons, having a problem in Houston, or learning to hang ten and Hula in Hawaii.

For a country of 50 odd states we have plenty to be thankful for; for instance, both of the world wars (France also have to be grateful for that, surely?) as well as developing an alliance between the countries that makes it seem like Australia, and America are geographic siblings.

Apart from the earnest things to be grateful for, to be grateful that America was found to begin with, is also the popular culture, so I say thanks to America for giving us Elvis, Tom and Huckleberry,  Paris Hilton for laughs,  Facebook, YouTube and how could I forget Perez Hilton? However, I must deny thanks for Rebecca Black, for she singlehandedly made Fridays a day to “get down” rather than chill out.

While there are economic problems, why not help their economy?  Imagine tasting a New York hotdog or Pretzel, watching the Red Socks in Boston, going the San Diego Zoo, and to see the majesty of Mt Rushmore, and of the Rocky Mountains as well as Yosemite national Park? 

While it is not thanksgiving yet, I give my thanks to America for all that they have given both in earnest and in lighter matters.

The least we can do, fellow Australians, is take a holiday.