An American Tune–An American Dream–What Good Is Dreaming It If You Don’t Actually Do It?–I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference–Living Within Ones Means–Videos

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

~Edgar Allan Poe

Many’s, the time I’v been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
But I’m all right, I’m all right
I’m just weary to my bones
Still, you don’t expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far away from home, so far away Irom home

And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
or driven to its knees
But it’s all right, it’s all right
We’ve lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road
we’re traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what went wrong

And I dreamed I was dying
And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassunngly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying

We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age’s most uncertain hour
and sing an American tune
But it’s all right, it’s all right
You can’t be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow’s going to be another working day
And I’m trying to get some rest
That’s all I’m trying to get some rest

 ~Paul Simon

Simon and Garfunkel – American Tune

 President Barack Obama’s Plan For America

Congressman Paul  Ryan’s Pathway To Prosperity

Citizen Raymond Pronk’s  Takeoff To Peace and Prosperity

Eva Cassidy – Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Which Budgets Are Balanced And Are Living Within Ones Means?

 Obama’s Plan For America

Democratic Party Budget Proposals 

 http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/tables.pdf

Ryan’s Pathway To Properity

Republican Party Budget Proposals

 http://budget.house.gov/UploadedFiles/PathToProsperityFY2012.pdf

Pronk’s  Takeoff To Peace and Prosperity

Tea Party Budget Proposals

Eva Cassidy – Chain Of Fools

What Good Is Dreaming It If You Don’t Actually Do It?

Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (Part 4 of 4)

The FairTax: It’s Time

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

~Robert Frost

Background Articles and Videos

“Extreme Spending”

Stop Spending Our Future – The Crisis

Eva Cassidy – Time After Time

Tennessee Waltz by Eva Cassidy

Eva Cassidy – Nightbird

Eva Marie Cassidy

“…Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996) was an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics. In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a live solo album, Live at Blues Alley in 1996. Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, D.C. when she died of melanoma in 1996.

Four years later, Cassidy’s music was brought to the attention of British audiences when her version of “Over the Rainbow” was played by Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2. Following the overwhelming response, a camcorder recording of “Over the Rainbow”, taken at the Blues Alley, was shown on BBC Two’s Top of the Pops 2. Shortly afterwards, the compilation album Songbird climbed to the top of the UK Albums Charts, almost three years after its initial release. The chart success in the United Kingdom and Ireland led to increased recognition worldwide; her posthumously released recordings, including three UK #1s, have sold more than ten million copies.^[1] Her music has also charted top 10 positions in Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland.^[2] …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Cassidy

Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves

Eva Cassidy-Songbird

Eva Cassidy – What a Wonderful World

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

~Edgar Allan Poe