I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
When I was younger I had a perm and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle but it was cool at the time.
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory if not practice the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or at least we used to.