[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 30, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                           RECIPE FOR AMERICA

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                         HON. RICHARD K. ARMEY

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 30, 1997

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend the students of Mrs. 
De Merchant's class of Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Corona del 
Mar, CA. Each of the 30 children submitted their personal ``Recipe for 
America.'' Their words and ideas testify to the simple and untarnished 
hope upon which our country was founded. Their belief and pursuit of 
American principles and their persistent optimism, despite the various 
vices of today's society, serves as a reminder to each of us to 
continue to uphold the truth and fight for justice and freedom. May we 
be found faithful as we seek to ensure the future for our country's 
greatest asset--our children.

                           Recipe for America

                         (By Priscilla Swenson)

       Defrost four gallons of exquisite, bright, and cheerful 
     beach weather. Add some rushing rivers flowing with icy cool 
     water. Add a pinch of flourishing fruited plains with one cup 
     of liberty. Stir in some family traditions. Season it with 
     soldier high, luscious green pines. Don't forget to mash all 
     violence and unjust treatment. Make sure to marinate and 
     sprinkle many cups of justice. Churn some freedom. Serve with 
     many rights and unbeatable fairness. And that is my recipe 
     for America!
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The Recipe for the United States of America's Purple Mountain Majesties

                          (By Geoffrey Simmon)

       1. Blend in a pound of the wonderful and magnificent 
     Washington Monument which is made out of two types of stone.
       2. Add in a cup of honest and truthful justice of the 
     Supreme Court.
       3. Pour a gallon of the salty and fresh water which mixes 
     in the Chesapeake Bay.
       4. Stir in two hundred twenty three years of wonderful 
     sports, ideas, technology, liberty, freedom and government.
       5. Thaw and throw out the years of rotten gangs, violence, 
     anger and pollution.
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                    My Recipe for the United States

                           (By Breanne Ogden)

       Combine the massive heads of Mount Rushmore.
       Separate the violence from peace.
       Stir the emerald green Statue of Liberty.
       Pinch some freedom into a bowl.
       Add two cups of Palm Springs heat.
       Mix in some endangered animals safety.
       Pound some justice into the stew of poor people.
       Fry some snow capped mountains.
       Chop the massive pine trees of Redwood Forest.
       Serve with the magical vibrant colors of crystal covered 
     beaches.
       And that's my recipe for the United States!
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                                 U.S.A.

                           (By Jeffrey Ogle)

       First blend in some liberty.
       Defrost some snowcapped Mts.
       Add some tasty blue waterfalls.
       Crust and dry some canyons.
       Shape some land and glaciers.
       Add a tablespoon of freedom.
       Throw in a quart of peace.
       Pour in oceans and lakes.
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                Recipe for the United States of America

                          (By Brittany Grech)

       Mix two ounces of surfing in tubed waves.
       Add three tablespoons of swimming with tropical fish in 
     clear, coral bottomed seas.
       Combine snow capped mountains and a pinch of skiing.
       Stir in cups full of fresh air and a pint of skydivers.
       Fry a rollerblader on the sidewalks by the hot sandy shore.
       Spread California's exquisite beach weather.
       Blend all the above ingredients gently together.
       Frost with the freedoms of speech and religion, a 
     responsible government and a secret ballot.
       Sprinkle this with presidential elections.
       Place it by beautiful tropical rainbows to cool.
       Serve with appropriate laws.
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                           Recipe for U.S.A.

                           (By Steve Hinton)

       Stir 7 pints of tradition.
       Add a teaspoon of justice.
       Flip the lush green valleys.
       Preheat the secret ballot.
       BBQ Mauna Kea.
       Churn a gallon of misty waterfalls,
       Slice rainbowed canyons.
       Mold a lot of wildlife.
       Drop some sliced onions on Mammoth.
       Measure the pledge.
       And Presto You Have America!
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                  My Recipe for America the Beautiful

                          (By John Carpenter)

       1. Defrost Washington's glistening, fun filled, snowy 
     mountains.
       2. Boil it for 1 hr. with 2 cups of forgiveness.
       3. Smash violence and melt it with Hawaii's dazzling 
     sunsets.
       4. Pour in 1 gallon clear, gushing waterfalls.
       5. Mix in a pint of pureness.
       6. Blend in a quart of glistening, shimmering, morning dew 
     drops landing on the tip of the Statue of Liberty's crown.
       7. Add a pinch of Ellis Island.
       8. Beat in the shocked gasps of the pocket filled, terribly 
     greedy, beer drinking, Las Vegas gamblers.
       9. Heat up a batch of family tradition.
       10. Baste it with love and laughter.
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                         My Recipe for America

                            (By Katie Lange)

       Mix some liberty in with peace.
       Sprinkle some fairness in.
       Stir freedom together.
       Add everyone treated equally.
       Pour some running free, babbling, stony brooks.
       Throw out violence.
       Blend in justice.
       Pick 999 blackberries and 1,000 raspberries.
       Then wash them.
       Boil them.
       Pour the whole recipe in a cup.
       Add some fun.
       Flip Mt. Rushmore over.
       Block out war.
       Mix dark clouds with rain.
       Pick some green valleys.
       Pop in some firecrackers.
       Mix forests together.
       And that's my recipe for the U.S.A.!
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                         America the Beautiful

                           (By Aaron Israel)

       Simmer a dozen snow-capped mountains;
       Stir a pound of hiking;
       Churn a cup of freedom of speech;
       Boil a dozen theme park trips;
       Mash an ounce of deep canyons;
       Chop a quart of education;
       Sizzle a pint of bike riding;
       Add a teaspoon of beautiful;
       Marinate a half teaspoon of law;
       Baste a gallon of boating.
       Presto, you have America!
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                        My Recipe for the U.S.A.

                            (By Brittany C.)

       Mix some liberty.
       Add one cup of green valleys.
       A pinch of ocean.
       A quart of freedom.
       Plus a tblsp. of justice.
       Crack the violence and keep the peace.
       Add three pinches of waterfall.
       And an ounce of rainbow.
       A cup of patience.
       A tsp. of adventure.
       Blend an ounce of inventions.
       Don't forget to broil two cups of opportunity.
       Two ounces of intelligence.
       And last, but not least, one bottle of fair laws.
       Stir until a thick paste.
       Now bake for two hundred years.
       Sprinkle some Bill of Rights.
       And enjoy.
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                         My Recipe for the USA

                           (By Carsten Ball)

       Mix some Blueberries.
       Pick out the seeds of the juicy, tasty desert red 
     Strawberry.
       Crunch the yummy, yummy Cherry's.
       Pluck out the huge black seeds of the tasty Watermelon.
       Wash the beautiful, shiny Apples.
       Taste the better than ever Cantaloupe.
       Smell the luscious, sour Tangerine.
       See the blinding, winding Lemon.
       Smash the messy, slippery white seeds out of the Oranges.
       Squash the soft and mushy Bananas between your teeth.
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                         Recipe for the U.S.A.

                             (By Sean Pham)

       Mix a cup of justice.
       Blend in two ounces of snowcapped mountains.
       Mash all of the violence.
       Add a dozen trips down the rocky, ridged, steep Grand 
     Canyon.
       Pour one pint of the Bill of Rights.
       Dip a tablespoon of clear, rushing rivers.
       Bake in one pound of surfing on the sunny, sandy beaches.

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       Combine the soaring bald eagles.
       Stir in two cups of Las Vegas flashing lights.
       Baste three pounds of technology.
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                            My U.S.A. Recipe

                           (By Sylvia Nguyen)

       1. Stir up liberty and justice.
       2. Mix a cup of civil rights.
       3. Add a pinch of a secret voting ballot.
       4. Combine warm sandy beaches with majestic snow-capped 
     mountains.
       5. Add a teaspoon of abundant agriculture and farming.
       6. Roast sports competition and mash out violence.
       7. Measure an ounce of a variety of different cultures and 
     new ideas.
       8. Blend evergreen trees of all kinds and flip up ideas for 
     inventions.
       9. Slice a pound of ethnic customs and season with peace 
     and friendliness.
       10. Barbecue fair weather and opportunity and what do you 
     have?
       America!
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                           Recipe for America

                         (By Spencer Stepnicka)

       1. Put in a pound of the Statue of Liberty.
       2. Stir in a pint of peace.
       3. Add in some deep canyon.
       4. Smash fighting.
       5. Mash in the red and white stripes and stars.
       6. Fry in freedom.
       7. Simmer in the law.
       8. Blend in the Great Lakes.
       9. Defrost technology.
       10. Add in Hawaii's active volcanoes.
       11. Bake.
       12. Eat.
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                Recipe for the United States of America

                          (By Brittany Bailey)

       1. Defrost snow topped mountains.
       2. Stir fresh pine valleys.
       3. Blend in fairness.
       4. Sprinkle in justice.
       5. Pour in salted beach water.
       6. Add freedom.
       7. Pinch in delicious grape vineyards.
       8. Put in the Statue of Liberty.
       9. Boil in icy slopes.
       10. Cook for 1 hour and a \1/2\ half.
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                           To Make A U.S. Pie

                            (By Chris Wimer)

       Roast the crowded, law lacking, over populated, smog filled 
     city of L.A.
       Sizzle the best, outrageous, action packed, high performing 
     movies of Universal, Fox, WB and HBO.
       Add a great, wonderful, gold filled land of a new world, 
     and bake for 505 years.
       Squash the plump, delicious, juice filled oranges of 
     Florida.
       Taste the enormous historical sky scraping Lady Liberty.
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                           Recipe for America

                            (By Matt Busch)

       Add a tablespoon of liberty.
       Mix some family tradition.
       Roast a pound of freedom.
       Throw out a platter of violence.
       Stir a cup of justice.
       Blend all the wonderful national parks.
       Mash all the horrible greed.
       Combine truth and righteousness.
       Simmer a pot of the wonderful animals.
       Taste the wholesome American air.
       Bake it all together and you've got America.
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                           Recipe for the USA

                          (By Marissa Mandala)

       Mix in a gallon of freedom.
       Add an ounce of culture and liberty.
       Throw in a cup of shinning waterfalls.
       Add a teaspoon of colorful rainbows.
       Toss in a tablespoon of sports and oceans.
       Sprinkle in one dozen green forests.
       Blend in a pound of green valleys.
       Throw out fifteen gallons of violence.
       Mix in a tablespoon of sandy beaches.
       Blend in four cups of furry animals.
       Loss in one gallon of bike races.
       Add one ounce of traditions.
       Mix in one pound of Sedona's bright red rocks.
       Then stir and bake for one hour.
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                           Recipe for America

                           (By Armand Lapuz)

       First put in a bit of rap.
       Then chop up a few thousand feet of the moist Grand Canyon.
       Then sprinkle a few bits of laws and sunny beach swimming.
       After that you have to mix a bit of religious freedom and 
     mix it up with the cool Yosemite Falls and then you have 
     America!
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                           Recipe for America

                           (By Jamie Steele)

       All you need to do is . . .
       1. Put in one ounce of justice.
       2. Mix in 4 pints of Shamu Whales.
       3. Slowly dip in soft fluffy kittens.
       4. Stir in 6 cups of imagination.
       5. Blend in 10 pounds of happiness.
       6. Sprinkle on 4 cups of flowers.
       7. Shake in 5 tablespoons of peace.
       8. Defrost 1 bowl of love.
       9. Baste with 1 ounce of art, health, and fame.
       10. Mix in 4 cups of education and friendship.
       11. Churn 3 bowls of sports and technology.
       12. Bake in one cup of weather and dolls.
       13. And top with a pinch of fun!
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                           Recipe for America

                           (By Mike Caponera)

       Pour in a cup of Hawaii's gigantic killer waves.
       Mix in a pound of justice.
       Stir in a gallon of Wyoming's colorful exploding geysers.
       Taste a teaspoon of skydiving.
       Throw in two dozen prowling mountain lions.
       Stuff in Mount Rushmore's pale white faces.
       Dip in Palm Springs scorching heat.
       Drop in five pounds of skiing.
       Boil a pint of intense football.
       Mash in two oz. of Oregon's wacky blizzards.
       Fry in half a pound of the fierce Grizzly bears.
       Sizzle five quarts of Las Vegas' bright dazzling lights.
       Sip an oz. of freedom.
       Season three lbs. of opportunity.
       Marinate two lbs. of the proud Lady Liberty.
       Sprinkle four drops of the dazzling orange sunsets.
       Push in one oz. of the green tree filled valleys.
       Defrost two tablespoons of exciting scuba diving.
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                         My Recipe for America

                            (By Ryan Vieth)

       First add allot of freedom of speech.
       Combine the Bill of Rights.
       Mix in America's fairness.
       Defrost America's new rules.
       Squash the bad fighting.
       Thaw the Rocky Mountains.
       Fry together.
       Separate the bad people from the good.
       Show the Statute of Liberty.
       Crack badness.
       Mash crime.
       And you have the U.S.A.
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                         My Recipe for America

                          (By Jenni Geoffroy)

       Mix in a gallon of Sedona's algae, rocky, bumpy, speedy, 
     fascinating falls.
       Add in 500% Las Vegas' noisy, fun and confusing casinos.
       Season frowns, make them smiles.
       Take pollution and throw it out!
       Take a pinch of helping hands.
       Get rid of gangs.
       Mix in dozens of immigrants.
       Sprinkle in the joy of storytelling and reading.
       Take Abe Lincoln and put him in.
       Add liberty and freedom.
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                          A Recipe for America

                            (By Kelly Smith)

       All you need to do is . . .
       Mix an ounce of love.
       Stuff a cup of caring.
       Blend of pound of right.
       Chop a gallon of fairness.
       Flame a blend of voting.
       Add a pinch of order.
       Pour a dip of peace.
       Simmer a slice of happiness.
       Measure an opening of spirits.
       Pinch in a lick of luck.
       Then you chop, stir, mix and blend it all together, and out 
     comes a little bit of everyone.
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               My Recipe for the United States of America

                         (By Brian Lewandowski)

       1. Add in all the trash compacted cities.
       2. Blend in all sports and skateboarding.
       3. Crack in all Violence and boil some Freedom.
       4. Stir in Liberty and Peace for 2,000,000 years.
       5. Chop up all Crime and add more peace.
       6. Pour in all nice and smooth rivers and oceans.
       7. Combine all the wonderful States.
       8. Shake in one tablespoon of Justice and Rights.
       9. Mix some intelligence and smartness.
       10. And you get America.
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                  Recipe For America's Fruited Plains

                           (By Billy Morrow)

       1. Defrost Park City's freezing cold over crowded ski 
     slopes.
       2. Put a pinch of liberty and stir for 200 years.
       3. Chop up 20 of Washington's ruby red apples and add.
       4. Add two cups of hiking trips in the Grand Canyon.
       5. Separate the peace and the violence (Throw the violence 
     away.)
       6. Boil for 30 minutes.
       7. Add one cup of great gray gravel from Mount Rushmore.
       8. Put in a refrigerator for 1 day.
       9. Presto you have American fruited plains.
       10. Put on a plate and enjoy.
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                           Recipe for America

                          (By Eddie Bedrosian)

       Mix together Armenian food and a good Die-Hard movie.
       Blend in snowmobiling and roller blading at Sierra Summit.
       Measure the learning from working with Grandpa on payroll 
     and with Oregon Trail.
       Add cool summer beaches and sizzling summer deserts.
       Stir in a U.S. Supreme Court gavel and good citizenship.

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       Simmer in electric cars and stricter highway safety.
       Season with the wiping out of cancer.
       Separate drug dealers from beepers.
       Combine justice and criminals.
       Enjoy--a safe and fun America!
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                          My Recipe for U.S.A.

                               (By Alex)

       Preheat the oven at 1,000 degrees.
       Mix a ton of friends and family.
       Blend in happiness and freedom.
       Put hunger and violence in the garbage disposal.
       Poor in some justice and liberty.
       Mix for 500 minutes slowly
       Put a teaspoon of fair laws.
       One pinch of world peace.
       Add in horses, dogs, cats and animals.
       Put 6 pints of freedom of religion.
       Preheat a tablespoon of mountain climbing.
       Combine a ton of independence.
       Bake for 200 years and season.
       Get a big cookie cutter and cut it out.
       Now you have America!
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                           Recipe for America

                          (By Michelle Matus)

       1. Preheat oven at 450.
       2. Thaw a cup of freedom in a bowl.
       3. Mix in one quart of all different cultures.
       4. Add an ounce of working laws.
       5. Sprinkle in some justice.
       6. Blend in a cup of lush green forests and valleys.
       7. Defrost the monumental Lady Liberty.
       8. Squash violence and throw it out.
       9. Melt in a tablespoon of peace.
       10. Measure a gallon of intelligence.
       11. Pour in a dozen boxes of happiness.
       12. Mash two pints of exercise and put it in the bowl.
       13. Put in a pound of sleep.
       14. Stir in a pinch of traditions.
       15. Combine a quart of beauty.
       16. Knead in a quart of beautiful valleys and cool 
     waterfalls.
       17. Churn in a cup of patience.
       18. Put in an ounce of adventure.
       19. Broil 10 minutes with opportunity.
       20. Bake 200 years and baste with different religions every 
     15 years.
       21. Cool mixture for 10 years and presto, you have America.
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                         Recipe for the U.S.A.

                          (By George Fujimuro)

       1. Take a cup of freedom and stir 221 years.
       2. Separate war and peace and dump war.
       3. Add \1/4\ justice.
       4. Add \1/4\ freedom.
       5. Add \1/4\ liberty.
       6. Add \1/4\ working man.
       7. Crack the dawning of inventions.
       8. Add the wonders of America.
       9. Devastate the violence.
       10. Heat often.
       Walla--you've got the United States of America.

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