America is an experiment. From the time of its first white settlement, America has been a place where people came to experiment with doing things differently. It’s been a place to gamble, to see if you could be one of the lucky ones who became landowners or lawyers or independent merchants. You gambled on the weather,…
— Read on thehistoricpresent.com/2008/11/16/the-great-american-experiment/

So I stumbled across this blog that is now 10 years old but it is still or even more relevant in our failing economy today.