Why I am Optimistic About Our Nation’s Future

by Natalie Marshall - SALT
     Why am I optimistic about our nation’s future? Honestly, it seems like a peculiar question when headlines inform us of the government shutdown, an ever-rising debt ceiling, and the potential of greater government infiltration into our daily lives. How would a young person grasp a vision for his future? However, every age faces crisis that may prove to define it. But this is the United States–the greatest human experiment the world has ever witnessed. What the United states has always had in its back pocket is optimism-hope for a brighter future. Just as John Adams said to his wife Abigail, “ I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means.” I remain optimistic because our nation has an entrepreneurship mentality, because this land is the land of the resilient. Continue reading “Why I am Optimistic About Our Nation’s Future”