Verizon has a great Ad running on TV which sums up the quintessential American Dream, B.O. (Before Obama), in thirty-two seconds:
The story told and retold through out American History from the beginning. Some one – Any one with an idea – for building and selling a “better mouse trap” - by using or creating American technology and his/her own God given talents could and did create new successful and profitable businesses, repeatedly. It is the story of America.