Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)

Right now I am listening to the song Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill) by Wyclef Jean. I never really realized the true meaning of this song until now. This song talks about a girl who used to be really sweet. But when she got older all that mattered was money. This song talks about how in our world money is everything and people do anything to get it.
Lyrics:
[Verse 1: (Wyclef Jean)]
High school she was that girl that make me do the hula hoop around the gym
(Just to get a peek again, she's a 10)
High school she was
That girl that make me do the hula hoop around the gym
(Just to get a peek again, she's a 10)
Never thought she would come and work for the president
Mr. George Washington (where my money at?)
She thought he'd call (where my money at?)
She had a good day, bad day, sunny day, rainy day
All she wanna know is (where my money at?)
Closed legs don't get fed, go out there and make my bread
All you wanna know is (where my money at?)
She ended up in a road car, bruised up, scarred hard
All you wanna know is (where my money at?)
She thought he'd call (where my money at?)

[Chorus: (Akon) ]
Cos I'mma tell you like you told me
Cash rules everything around me
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Cos I'mma tell you like you told me
Cash rules everything around me
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)

[Verse 2: (Akon)]
Pimpin' got harder cos, hoes got smarter
On the strip is something they don't wanna be a part of
Rather be up in the club shakin' for a thug
For triple times the money and spending it how they wanna
They got they mind on they money, money on they mind
They got they finger on the trigger, hand on the nines
See everyday they feel the struggle, but staying on they grind
And ain’t nobody takin’ from us, and that’s the bottom line

But I know there's a drop in the block
You move slow
You getting' pressure from cops
You don't know not to lay low
Because 25 to life is no joke
To all my real gorillas thuggin'
On top of corners every day strugglin'
[ Sweetest Girl lyrics found on http://www.completealbumlyrics.com ]
All the beautiful women getting' money
Washin' them dollar bills like laundry

[Chorus: (Akon) ] (x2)
Cos I'mma tell you like you told me
Cash rules everything around me
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Cos I'mma tell you like you told me
Cash rules everything around me
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)

[Bridge: (Wyclef Jean)]
Money, money-money-money
Money, money-money-money
It drives the world crazy

[Verse 3: (Lil Wayne)]
(Weezy) She used to be (she used to be the sweetest girl)

She used to be the sweetest girl ever
Now she like sour ameretta
She wears a dress to the T like the letter
And if you make it rain she will be under the weather
She used to run track back in high school
Now she tricks off the track right by school
She takes a loss cos she don't wanna see her child lose
So respect her, I'll pay up for the time used
And then she runs to the pastor
And he tells her there will be a new chapter
But she feels no different after
And then she asks him…

[Chorus: (Akon) ] (x2)
Cos I'mma tell you like you told me
Cash rules everything around me
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Cos I'mma tell you like you told me
Cash rules everything around me
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)
Singin' dollar dollar bill yall(dollar, dollar bill yall)

[Outro: (Wyclef Jean)]
Some live for the bill
Some kill for the bill (where my money at?)
She wined for the bill
Grind for the bill (where my money at?)
Some steal for the bill, if they got to pay the bill (where my money at?)

The parts that stood out to me the most were the chorus, the bridge, and the outro. These stood out most because they are the main things that affect and are a part of my life. All three of these are so true and i dont want to believe it, but that is how our world is. In the old days, it used to be moral values that were important, but now everything revolves around money. It really does "drive the world crazy."

Thoughts...

Today in english when we were discussing the Woman Warrior, we went off topic and we started talking about the US government/military. We were talking about what happens to a US citizen when they fight against the US in a war. We talked about how we send them off to prisons outside of US teritory and then they secretly torture them. I think this is so disgusing. We in general as US citizens are very sick people. Torture is illegal in the US and so just because we want to beat someone to see them suffer, we go and find a way to do that. It just sickens me to know that people would do something like that. How could they stand life knowing that they tortured someone till they almost died? How can they not feel guilty about something like that? Do they have no feelings? I dont understand how people are amused by seeing someone else suffer. What if it was happening to them, would they still be amused? I doubt it. This was just a thought that popped up in my head when someone asked the question, "What happens to traitors?" I hate to believe it, but it's true.

Ally's Picture

I thought ally's picture of the little girl smoking was really good and interesting. I thought it was good because it has a good meaning behind it and it is a really creative way of showing people what will happen to you if you smoke. This picture makes the onlooker have a sense of the bad things that will happen to you if you do this to yourself. The picture conveys a good meaning to the person looking at the picture.

Water

In World Civ. the other day, we were discussing the middle east. It brought us to the topic of water and water scarcity. We talked about how so many places in this world don't have fresh water. We talked about the Middle East being one of the main places that is running out of water because there is more and more people, but less and less water. Our teacher, Mr. Georgi, told us that they are starting to desalinate water from the Mediterranean Sea and in their reservoirs they pour a layer of olive oil over the water to keep it from evaporating. This disscussion made me think about three main things. 1. Middle Easterners are really smart. 2. What's going to happen when we run out of water? 3. Are we going to do anything to prevent our water from dissapearing (in Hawaii)? I was thinking about these questions, and i dont really know how to answer them. I guess if we run out of water, we are all going to die unless by then we found another planet with water or some other genius scientific discovery. For the other question, i dont know what we will do, but i really hope that we do something. Personally, i would like to stop people from moving here, but that is not possible since it's unconctitutional. Another thing i think we should do, not only for hawaii but also for the mainland, is control water usage. Rigth now they are doing this in some of the east coast states that are in a drought. They are only aloowing people to use water for certain things. An alternative to this could be to increase the price of water, because if the price goes higher, people will most likely use less water. This solution may not work as well as the others though. In conclusion, what i am basically trying to say is that we need to watch how we use our water because if we dont, water will be scarce for us just like in the middle east. I dont want to get into that situation, or at least not in my lifetime.

Sustainable Classroom: Max Nu'uhiwa

I read this article on ePunahou. It is about Maxine Nu'uhiwa, a third grade teacher at punahou who is trying to make the third grade a more sustainable environment. She is trying "to reduce facilities wear and tear" by leaving shoes and slippers outside the classroom and putting tennis balls on the bottom of chairs. Ms. Nu'uhiwa is trying to "target the reduction of food waste." She purchased reusable lunch bags and plastic containers for her students and made reusable bags out of recycled CapriSun containers. "We can reduce lunch waste by 90 percent and total waste by 50 percent by the end of this year," she says. The class has already achieved a 75 percent reduction. I think this is a really great step in sustainability. If she teaches all her kids to be this sustainable, they will grow up and make a difference in our island. I look up to her for doing this because she actually is making a difference. I always think to myself that i will try to be more sustainable. I try to reuse and recycle things, but whe i actually think about what i do, i dont really do that much. The only sustainable thing that i always do is recycle my cans. I know i can do alot more, but i dont really set my mind to it. Another thing i do is waste alot of food. At home, we (my family and i) try not to get so much food so that we will finish it all, but in the end we usually end up tossing something in the trash. Not only is this unsustainable but extremely wasteful. We throw away so much food and we take it for granted. We dont realize how lucky we are to have food whenever we want. There are millions of homeless people in our world that rarely get food. This is the reason i am so glad she is doing what she is doing with her students.

Al Harington

At chapel on wednesday, Al Harington came to talk to us. He is a former Punahou student, that used to live in Halawa. He told us his life story and told us about how he grew up really poor. He told us about how sometimes he had to steal to get food to survive. This was all quite sad, but then he started to talk about identity. "How ironic," I thought. He said, "You are what you think, not what you environment is." This turned on a lightbulb in my head because in class we never really brought up this point. We had some similar things, but no one ever mentioned this. I thought about this for a while, and I would like it to be true, but life isn't always what you want it to be. I agree with him, but i also dissagree with him. what you think you are is definately part of you identity, but what your environment is can affect your identity. For example, if you grew up with drug addict parents who never had enough money to buy you food because they would spend it all on drugs, then you would probably have much less opportunities and resources. You might not be able to go to school, so you wouldn't be educated, causing a huge lack of opportunity. Another example is his own life story. He grew up poor, so he had to steal. This makes part of his identity a stealer. Even if he stole for crucial reasons, it doesnt make it right, he still stole. My point is, a person's identity can be what they think of themselves, but it is also based on other factors.

Hotel Rwanda

We are watching Hotel Rwanda in world civ. and it is one of the saddest movies i have ever seen. The movie is about the war between the Hutus and Tutsis. The Hutus are the majority population so the movie is basically about the massacre of the Tutsis. There is one Hutu man, Paul who is trying to help the Tutsis, but he is running out of resources. There was a newsman that got footage of part of a massacre. Paul was glad because he thought if they showed that on TV, people would try to send help, but the newsman told him that people would see it and say 'thats so sad' and just go back to eating their dinners. This line was especially deep to me. I thought about it and realized how true it is. Whenever I watch the news and they are talking about a war. I just think to myself, "Wow, thats really terrible," but i dont do anything about it. Eventually i just forget about it. this made me feel so bad because i'm sure that most people do this. They feel sad for others, but because it is not happening to them, they just forget about it. I think that its really hard to understand what's happening to less furtuante people because we have so much. We have never gone through anything like them.

What do you see?

My friend sent this picture to me via email. I was looking at it, and it was really interesting. When i first looked at it, I only saw the big man's head. Then I looked more slowly and carefully, and eventually i saw more and more pictures. After i saw the big head, i saw the body of it. Then i noticed that his hand was a dog. Then i saw the small lady with her baby, and a small man standing in an archway. The lady was disguised in the big man's ear and the man was disguised in the big man's nose, eye, and mouth. Last, I saw two heads on either side of the archway.
After looking at this picture, I thought to myself, "it's amazing that we have artists who can draw optical illusions." I think it's so cool to be able to do that. It's amazing that there can be so many things disguised as one picture.

Basketball

This year, the season for girls ILH basketball was changed from spring to winter season. It was changed to the same season as guys basketball. I think this is really stupid because now we have to share the 2 courts in the gym and the 3 courts outside between 12 teams. There are 2 teams for girls and boys of each level, Varsity, JV, and Intermediate. Everything is so much harder for the girls now, because of course the guys sports are more important. We have a much shorter season, and we dont get to have preseason tournaments anymore. Our practices (and court time) are going to be shortened and altered. We may even have late or really early (5:30-7:00 AM) practices. It is really unfair that the guys are favored over the girls. I am really angry about this, because things are supposed to be equal. It just shows that people are still prejudiced.

Whale Rider (Identity)

After i turned in my final essay today, I was thinking about other movies that i could have used as examples. Then, I thought of Whale Rider. I realized that this movie is a great example of finding identity.

'Whale Rider' is the story of Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes), a young girl resented by grandfather Koro (Rawiri Paratene) for the heinous crime of being born a female. He longs instead for a grandson to carry on the family name, as they are the last descendants of the original Maori leader who, according to legend, escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. So, shunning his granddaughter despite her continual attempts to impress, Koro seeks out a new great chief among the first-born boys of the local neighbourhood. Meanwhile, Pai sets about upstaging each of the lads with her superior skills at stick-fighting, swimming, and pulling faces - and even goes as far as to go riding on a whale. She does it to show Gramps that she too can be great, that she too can inspire those around her, and that she too is capable of proudly carrying the family name. Pai believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
http://www.movie-gazette.com/cinereviews/391
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298228/plotsummary

Basically, Pai is supposed to be the new cheif, and she believes that is her identity. But Pai's grandpa wont accept her as the new cheif. Instead, she tries to prove to him that she is the one. Even though she is better than the boys at many of the skills, her grandpa still refuses her. At the end of the movie, she rides away on a whale, to prove that she can be a leader too. Not until then does her grandpa realize that she is capable, but it is too late because she is gone.
I think this is more of a movie about the grandpa trying to realize Pai's identity, because he was too stuborn to accept what Pai was chosen to do. He was sexist and he just wasn't used to any of this happening. In the end, the grandpa was the one that found out Pai's true identity and destiny.

Songs... Poems?

Misery by Good Charlotte

Look at all these happy people
living their lives
Look at all these plastic people
they're dying inside
Look at all these shallow people
telling their lies
Look at all these empty people

When I was listening to this song, this one verse really stood out to me. I think it is really deep, because all this is so true. Most of the time, people don't really pay attention to the lyrics of a song, they just listen to it because it sounds good. But usually I try to pay attention to the lyrics of a song, because a lot of them have hidden meanings that reflect the real world. I think that is one of the reasons I like music so much. Because they have messages and it makes it interesting. I think songs are just poems, with a tune. They have a depth, and they are trying to give a message.

Stereotypes

Today in Spanish class we were talking about stereotypes against Mexicans. First, our teacher asked to write down everything we think of when we think of Mexico. We all wrote down the same things. We wrote things like buritto, quesadilla, salsa, nachos, lots of other Mexican food, illegal immigrants, marijuana, wetbacks, Zorro, etc. After we wrote these things, we talked about how stereotypes are just a way of grouping people even though not very many people even fit in it. We know nothing about the people that actually live in Mexico. The only people that we know about are the ones they talk about in the media. Why are the illegal immigrants from Mexico such a big deal, and the Canadian illegal imigrants are not even noticed. It's because we think of Mexico as a poor country so we discriminate (are racist against) them. But, if you really think about it, we have so many poor people in our own country that it's probably just like Mexico. Im sure they have rich, average and poor people just like us. We always think about other countries being poor, but just look around. Everywhere you go in the US, we have homeless people that are barely surviving and we don't even take care of them and try to get them jobs. Basically what I'm trying to say is stereotypes are bad, because they arent even true. I think it's really pathetic that our lives revolve around it and a lot of the stuff we learn from the media are stereotypes. This also shows how much our lives depend on the media. That's where we get so much of our knowledge (besides school) and we believe everything even though it may not be true.

Especially Good Phrase

A phrase from one of the poems that i thought was really good was, "knowing that he only has to hold the pose for another second." The reason i think this is such a good phrase is because it tells the reader that it was only a pose. Or at least, that is the way i take it. This phrase is saying that the dad isnt normally like that, but he is just posing for the camera/picture. It tells me that either the dad didnt like the way he normally is so he had to find a disguise, he wanted to try to look a certain for the picture, or he wanted someone to see him in the certain way he posed in the picture. For example, maybe he wanted to look sophisticated, when he was really just a bum or something like that. This is important because a lot of the time, people judge you on the way you look, if they don't know you personally. If the author didnt have this line in the poem, then you would automatically assume that the dad is the way he looks in the picture, but since he added this part, you know it is just a look.

Which to Bury, Us or the Hatchet

"No, I don't hate you
don't want to fight you
know I'll always love you
but right now I just don't like you"

This is the chorus from the song Which to Bury, Us or the Hatchet, by Relient K. I think any normal person can relate to this song. I know I can relate to it. This is basically the everyday relationship between me and my family. It's just like when I want to do something or get something, but my parents dont let me. So then ofcourse i get mad at them, but i still love them. It's the same with my brother or sister, if we get in a fight.
I like it when I can relate to songs, because I understand what the artists are feeling when they wrote the song. It helps me understand and get the feeling of the song. I think music is a cool way of expressing your feelings.

Speak Truth to Power

I meant to post this last week, but I forgot. I just wrote it on a word document. So our last chapel was about "speaking truth to power". Mr. Hamamoto talked about how people always go along with things even if they dont agree with it. They do this because they are too scared to speak up. They are too scared to do something about it. He showed us a video about a man who stood up against the power (in this case the government) and he just wouldnt let them do what they wanted. He didnt let us see the end of the video, but he probably ended up getting killed. I was thinking about this, and I realized how true all of this is. I mean everyday this happens to me. It can be as simple as walking past trash on the ground. I want to be able "speak truth to power", but it really is hard. It's hard to speak up to people because you might get burned. I want to have the courage to do it, but it isnt that easy.

I'm Glad I'm Catholic

Last night I was watching Cold Case. It was about this Amish girl who was murdered. She left her community because she was sick of being so protected. She wanted to go out and see the rest of the world. She decided to go to Philadelphia and her best friend came with her. When they got there, they saw one of their old guy friends who used to live with them. He was telling them how great it was to live in the city and how great it was not having to follow all the Amish rules. The girl was really excited about all of this, but her friend was scared. The first day they went to a club, and the girl met this guy. They started to get to know each other, and the girl really liked him, but then she found out that he raped her best friend the first night they got there. Her best friend had already returned home. The girl was so upset and she wanted to go home. But then her mom came. She told her daughter that she should take the opportunity, and stay out in the real world, because she (the mom) never had a chance to. So the girl decided to stay. Then her old guy friend found out about this. He told he should go home when she had the chance, but she didn't want to. He told her she was making a mistake, but she said she wasnt. He got mad and he stabbed her. Later we find out that the old friend was banned from the community because he had drinking problems. They wouldnt accept him in their community. Even though he acted like he really liked the outside world, the truth is, he really wanted to return home, but he couldnt. He missed his parents and he missed the rules. So when he found out that she had the chance to go back but turned it down, he was so jealous and he thought she was making such a big mistake. That is why he killed her.

I thought this was so sad, because the guy really wanted to go home. Because of the Amish ways, they wouldn't let him live with them. They just kicked him out instead of trying to help him. Also, the kids are so sheltered and they never get to see other places. I'm not saying this is bad, because some people like rules and protection. But for me, I'm just happy that I am catholic and I get a lot of privileges. I don't have to stay on a small farm and be sheltered from everything. I get to do things with my friends and travel to other places. I get to experience the world.

A Crack in the Line

Today I picked up the novel A Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence at the library. I haven't started reading it yet, but i have been thinking about the description on the inside cover.

The mystery has begun Alaric It's been two years since his mother died in a terrible train crash, and Alaric's life continues to unravel. He and his father are barely on speaking terms, and Withern Rise, their Victorian mansion, is in shambles. Trapped at home during a blizzard, Alaric stumbles into a parallel world; a reality in which his mother is still alive. There's only one problem ... someone else is living his life. Naia Naia tries not to dwell on the horrible accident two years ago that nearly took her mother away. Now that life with her parents in Withern Rise has returned to normal, Naia thinks the worst is behind her. But during a freak snowstorm she's confronted by a stranger. Why does this boy look like her? Why does he have the same thoughts? The same memories? Who is he? Alaric's and Naia's discovery of each other sets off an electrifying chain of events. And as their lives - and lifelines - entwine, the two teenagers uncover a truth with the power to rearrange, or even erase, their very existence.

I mean, what if we really do have a parallel world? That would be so cool. Would we ever be able to find it even if we did? If it was like the parallel world in this book, would one of the world's be opposite from the other except for the personality of the one person, ourselves? And if we discovered our other body and our lives started to "entwine", would we be able to "rearrange, or even erase, our very existence"? This is like a chain that made me think there may be many alternate worlds, but how will we ever know the truth unless somehow, some miracle happens, and we do discover an alternate world?

'Sometimes your best isn't good enough'

Once again, this is something from music. I think music is a really good way to get an idea through, but anyway...
this is the title of a song by the churchills. As i was listening, i was thinking to myself, "this is so true, it happens to me all the time." I hate the fact that this line is true, because when you try as hard as you possibly can, and you still dont suceed in it, then it make you feel like a failure. thats what i think anyway. A huge part of my life that i am reffering to for this line has to do with school and tests. Sometimes when I have tests, i study day and night every break that i have, i do as much as i can, but i still end up doing not so well. It brings me down because it makes me feel like i cant accomplish things when i want. this feeling makes me really annoyed, but i cant really do anything. "Sometimes my best just isn't good enough."

Working Class Hero

I was listening to my iPod today and it was on shuffle. Then the music video Working Class Hero by Green Day started playing. I had never really listened carefully to this song before because I always thought it wasn’t such a catchy song, but today I actually listened to the lyrics.

Working Class Hero Lyrics:

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

Sing365.com
(http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Working-Class-Hero-lyrics-Green-Day/4B8CBFA93383E10F482572B30010FCF2)

I realized how sad and true this song is. This is such a sad video because it reminds us that there are people so rich they can go through life getting anything they want, and then there are people who are living in poverty. There are people living in third world countries with genocide and poverty who see their family being killed right in front of them. This song talks about how everything in this world is controlled by capitalism and we don’t really have many choices in what we want to do because if we want to survive, we need to get a well paid job so that we will be able to live somewhere and have food to eat. We don’t get a choice whether we want to get a job or not, because we'll have to find a way to get money somehow. And the only way to do that, besides robbing people, is to get a job.

Freechoice 1

Dear Diary,
My coach is really starting to piss me off. We are entering a tournament in about a week and we're splitting our team up into two different teams. Yesterday he told us what teams we would probably be on. He told us that the teams are supposedly equal in basketball skill and talent, but obviously one team is better than the other and everyone knows it. This may sound weird, but I don’t like the team I'm on. I'm glad that my coach thinks I'm a good player, but I won't be so good once I play with this team. Even though everyone thinks it's the "good" team, it's not the good team from my perspective. Some of the people on it really annoy me and I don’t play well with them. I think some of them are ball hogs and some of them just suck. My friend and I were on the same team, but we wanted to play with one of our other friends that got put on the other team. After practice we asked him about it. He though about it for a while and let my friend move to the other team, but not me. So now I am stuck all by myself on a team mostly with people I can't even play well with.
Another thing that is getting to me is the fact that he moved a lot of people to positions they don't normally play. He moved one of our shooting guards to a point guard instead of just putting the only point guard we have on the good team. The point guard we have (who is my friend that got put on the second team) is really good, but for some reason our coach always puts her on the second team. He must have something against her, but if he wants to start winning he better start dealing with whatever his problem is. That other girl that was moved to point from wing can't dribble to save her life. Okay, well that's a little over exaggerated, but she's definitely not good enough at dribbling to be a point guard. Besides that, she doesn't even want to be a point guard. Then he moved another player from forward to guard. She hates being a guard, and her best move is a baseline move that she could only do if she was in the forward position.
I know I sound like a baby right now, but everything I said was true. I do play better with certain people, and some people on the team are ball hogs. I'll just have to get use to it though, because I know I won't get a choice. I'll just have to learn to play with people like that and I know I shouldn’t be complaining, but I just want to know why my coach does things that I never understand. Obviously these questions won't be answered since I've tried asking them before. I just need to get used to the fact that life isn't always fair… even though I wish it was.

President Bush is the greatest president we have ever had

After reading the title some of you are probably thinking, "How would she know he is the greatest president, she's only 14, she has barely known any presidents." Well, don't assume that just quite yet. I have lots facts that will back up my point. Plus, most of you know I'm a smart kid, so why wouldn’t you believe me on something like this. First I want to talk about how he has handled the Iraq War. Only someone like President Bush would think to keep sending in more troops all the same while more keep dying, it's like we have unlimited people and as soon as one person disappears, another one appears. Only he could think to spend more and more money on this war until we became billions of dollars in debt. Then there's Hurricane Katrina. He is doing really well with that. It's only been about 2 years since it hit and he is still fixing it up. Then there is that thing with all the Mexican immigrants. He is definitely keeping track of them. So there are my reasons for him being the greatest president ever. I hope you have read this carefully and thought about what I have said. Maybe it will change your point of view on him.