oh I totally agree with you!
are ya from CA? ....trying to figure out your screen name too as well ;-}
Actually, I’m from New York originally but I went to college in L.A. and lived in Santa Barbara for 16 years.
I live in Maine now; I’d consider moving back to Santa Barbara if the median home price wasn’t one million dollars....whew! (Like many people, I have a love / hate relationship with California).
My screen name comes from the 1987 TV series “Amerika,” which depicted life in the former United States 10 years after a bloodless takeover by the Soviet Union. In the mini-series, the entire U.S. Congress consisted of native-born former Americans who were appointed by the Russian occupation forces. There was a group of freedom fighters who were trying to liberate America and, in one scene in the mini-series, the freedom fighters blew up the Soviet-controlled Capitol Building and scrawlled on the sidewalk in front of the building, “July 4th Freedom Foundation.”
For whatever reason, that scene popped up in my head when I registered here on Free Republic.
The late Robert Urich was in this mini-series; the Russians carved up a new country in the mid-west called “Heartland,” and they wanted Robert Urich’s character to be the Soviet-appointed head of this new “country.”